15. While I, Daniel, sought the meaning of the vision I had seen, one who looked like a man stood before me,
16. and on the Ulai I heard a human voice that cried out, “Gabriel, explain the vision to this man.”
17. When he came near where I was standing, I fell prostrate in terror. But he said to me, “Understand, O son of man, that the vision refers to the end time.”
18. As he spoke to me, I fell forward unconscious; he touched me and made me stand up.
19. “I will show you,” he said, “what is to happen in the last days of wrath; for it is for the appointed time of the end.
20. “The two-horned ram you saw represents the kings of the Medes and Persians.