Revelation 1:17

ἔπεσα … νεκρός. So Daniel 8:17 sq., Daniel 10:8-9; Daniel 10:15 (Ezekiel 1:28; Ezekiel 43:3; Ezekiel 44:4 do not necessarily imply so much): cf. Exodus 3:6; Exodus 20:19; Exodus 33:20; Judges 6:22; Judges 13:22; Isaiah 6:5; and also Luke 24:37; John 21:12. St John was in presence of both the sources of supernatural terror—of God’s Presence made manifest, and of One come from the dead.

ἔθηκεν. So in Daniel 10:10 a hand: Daniel 10:16 ὡς ὁμοίωσις υἱοῦ� Daniel 10:18 ὡς ὅρασις� touches the prophet: in each place the touch is followed by encouraging words.

ὁ πρῶτος καὶ ὁ ἔσχατος. i.e. the Eternal, as Isaiah 41:4; Isaiah 44:6; Isaiah 48:12; the ancient (? Arianising) variant πρωτότοκος suggests that as the Firstborn among many brethren, the inheritor of an everlasting kingdom, the Son even in His Manhood is an Image of the Father’s eternity.