Source Text: Daniel 7:13-14
Target Text(s):
Source: Beale & Carson, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (Baker, 2007); standard discussions of OT "son of man" background
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Anchor Text: Dan 7:13-14 — The Son of Man Receiving Dominion
Significance: Psalm 80:17 prays, "Let Your hand be upon the man at Your right hand, on the son of man (בֶּן־אָדָם, ben-ʾadam) You have raised up for Yourself" — the one OT use of "son of man" outside Ezekiel and Psalm 8 that carries a quasi-messianic, representative-deliverer charge. The "man at Your right hand" is Israel personified or her king, the agent through whom God will restore the ruined vine and save His people. Daniel 7:13-14 brings this hope to its apocalyptic climax: the figure "like a son of man" is led into the presence of the Ancient of Days and given everlasting dominion over all nations. The link is a longitudinal echo rather than a citation — Daniel does not quote Psalm 80 — but the shared title and the shared movement (a representative son of man drawn near to God for the rescue and rule of His people) make Psalm 80:17 part of the prophetic substrate from which Daniel's vision emerges. The trajectory runs from a prayer for the man at God's right hand to the vision of the Son of Man enthroned at God's right hand, fused by Jesus with Psalm 110:1 (Mark 14:62). The telos is the Shepherd-King of Psalm 80 finally seen reigning — the One whose face, when it shines on us, saves (Ps 80:19), and whom to behold is to be restored.