And I beheld, Daniel, and it appeared as if two others were present, one standing on this side of the riverbank and the other on the opposite side. I addressed the man dressed in linen, who was positioned above the waters of the river, asking, "When will the culmination of these incredible events occur?" Daniel observed two angels stationed on either bank of the river Babylon. Although the river is not named here, I surmise, based on the prior vision, that it is the Tigris, referred to in Hebrew as Eddesel. However, he did not inquire of those standing on both banks but directed his question to the one whom he had seen earlier (as noted in 10:5), the one clothed in linen—what is described in Hebrew as baddim.
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This angel also hovered over the waters of the river Babylon, treading upon them with his foot. Thus, we must conclude that the two angels Daniel perceived on the shore, whom he did not question, are of Persian and Greek origin; and the latter symbolizes the favorable angel who presented Daniel’s prayers before God at the time when the Persian angel opposed him. Daniel sought to know when the remarkable events depicted in this vision would occur, which Porphyry interprets with reference to Antiochus, while we see it in the context of Antichrist.
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