Daniel 7:16 (BSB)

I approached one of those who were standing there, and I asked him the true meaning of all this. So he told me the interpretation of these things:

From Daniel 7. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Daniel 7:16

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Daniel 7:15-28: Here we have, I. The deep impressions which these visions made upon the prophet. God in them put honour upon him, and gave him satisfaction, yet not without a great allay of pain and perplexity (Dan 7:15): I Daniel was grieved in my spirit, in the midst of my body.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Daniel 7:16: I came near unto one of them that stood by,.... To one of the angels that attended, either the throne of judgment, or, the Son of man in his approach to his divine Father: and asked him the truth of all this; the substance of these visions; what these images, presented to his view, were shadows and representations of; so type and truth, shadow and...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Daniel 7:16: I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things. (e) Meaning one of the angels, as inGeneva "Dan 7:10"
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Daniel 7:16: Dan 7:16 Daniel turned himself towards an angel who stood by, with a request for an explanation of these things. One of them that stood by refers to those mentioned in Dan 7:10, who stood around the throne of God; whence it is obvious that the vision is still continued. אבעא is not the preterite, I asked him, but the subjunctive, that (ו) I might ask.