Reading for June 25th

Read Daniel 10.1-11 The onset of Daniel's vision.
Compare Ezekiel's vision (Ezek 1).
In verse 1 the third year of King Cyrus of Persia: 536 BCE, 70 years after the date in 1.1 (see 9.24).
In verses 2-4 acts of self-denial are typical preparations for trances and
other forms of mystical experience.
In verse 5 twenty-fourth day of the month: The 24th of Nissan, one day following the
conclusion of Passover.
In verses 5-6 a man clothed in linen: an angel dressed as a priest and gleaming like the cherubim of Ezekiel's vision (see Ezek 9.2; 40.3).
Uphaz: See Jer 10.9.
In verses 7-9 Trance: See Gen 2.21; 15.2.
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