‘But go your way until the end be. For you will rest and will stand in your lot at the end of the days.'

In a closing benediction the angel tells him that his task is finished. He may now go his way satisfied that he has fulfilled God's will. ‘The end' is probably the end of his life, for it is the point at which he will rest. Then he will sleep, taking his rest until at the end of the days he is resurrected to enjoy his destiny, and shine as the stars for ever and ever.

Or ‘the end' may signify the time of resurrection (Daniel 12:2), when he will stand in his appointed position ‘at the end of the days', that is at the consummation, at the time of the resurrection of the righteous.

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