I fell at his feet as dead 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.

he laid his right hand, &c. So Daniel 10:10; Daniel 10:16. As in Luke 24:39, the Lord's touchserves to remind the Disciple of His still remaining perfect humanity. Sharing our nature, He is no longer the object of such blind terror as we should feel before an Angel or a disembodied spirit, or still more before God if revealed otherwise than in Christ.

the first and the last i.e. the Eternal, as Isaiah 41:4; Isaiah 44:6; Isaiah 48:12.

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