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Daniel 8:17

The New Testament’s use of Daniel

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened, and fell on my face: but he said to me, Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end.

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Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.

Allusion1

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Luke 1:8-12

'Zacharias was troubled... and fear fell upon him' reproduces Daniel's terror before Gabriel, when Daniel 'was frightened and fell on my face' (Daniel 8:17; cf. 10:7-9). The stock prophetic dread-at-theophany reaction, paired with the Gabriel context, makes this a coherent Danielic allusion.

High confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Rev 22:6–9 ?

Daniel falls before the angelic interpreter (cf. 10:9). Background for John falling to worship the revealing angel, though the prohibition of angel-worship is distinctive to Rev. Faint, generic.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Daniel 8
Daniel 8:13 3Daniel 8:16 2Daniel 8:23 3Daniel 8:23-25 2Daniel 8:25 3