Daniel 8:18

18 Mientras él hablaba conmigo, caí en un sueño profundo con mi rostro en tierra; él me tocó y me hizo incorporar donde yo estaba.

Daniel 8:18 Meaning and Commentary

Daniel 8:18

Now as he was speaking with me
Addressing him in the above manner: I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground;
through fear he fell prostrate to the ground, and swooned away, which issued in a deep sleep; and so was unfit to attend to the explanation of the vision the angel was sent to give him; and which was not through indifference to it, or neglect of it; but through human weakness, his nature not being able to bear up under such circumstances, which struck him with such fear and dread: but he touched me, and set me upright;
he jogged him out of his sleep, and took him, and raised him up, and set him on his feet; or, "on his standing" ^F13; which Ben Melech explains, as he "was standing at first"; and so in a better posture to attend to what was about to be revealed unto him.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 (ydme le) "super stare meum", Montanus, Gejerus; "super stationem meam", Michaelis.

Daniel 8:18 In-Context

16 Y oí una voz de hombre entre las márgenes del Ulai, que gritaba y decía: Gabriel, explícale a éste la visión.

17 El se acercó adonde yo estaba, y cuando llegó, me aterroricé y caí sobre mi rostro, pero él me dijo: Entiende, hijo de hombre, que la visión se refiere al tiempo del fin.

18 Mientras él hablaba conmigo, caí en un sueño profundo con mi rostro en tierra; él me tocó y me hizo incorporar donde yo estaba.

19 Y dijo: He aquí, te voy a dar a conocer lo que sucederá al final de la ira, porque se refiere al tiempo señalado del fin.

20 El carnero que viste, con los dos cuernos, representa a los reyes de Media y de Persia.