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What does Daniel 8:18 mean?

"Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright."

— Daniel 8:18 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

15

When I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought to understand it. Then behold, there stood before me something like the appearance of a man.

16

I heard a man’s voice between the banks of the Ulai, which called, and said, “Gabriel, make this man understand the vision.”

17

So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened, and fell on my face; but he said to me, “Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end.”

18

Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright.

19

He said, “Behold, I will make you know what will be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time of the end.

20

The ram which you saw, that had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.

21

The rough male goat is the king of Greece. The great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

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