“On the twenty-fourth day
Of the first month,
As I was standing
On the bank
Of the great river,
That is the Tigris,
I looked up.
I saw
A man clothed
In linen,
With a belt
Of gold,
From Uphaz,
Around his waist.
His body was
Like beryl.
His face was
Like lightning.
His eyes were
Like flaming torches.
His arms,
As well as his legs,
Were
Like the gleam
Of burnished bronze.
The sound
Of his words were
Like the noise
Of a multitude.”
On the 24th of the 1st month, Daniel was on the banks of the great river, the Euphrates, not the Tigris, since the Tigris does not go through Babylon. Then Daniel looked up. He saw a man dressed in linen clothes with a Uphaz gold belt. Uphaz was another name for Ophir, a large gold mining area. Daniel then described this man’s body as like beryl or emerald looking. His face was like lightning. His eyes were like flaming torches. He almost sounded like Santa Claus. His arms and legs were like burnished bronze, similar to the bronze man at the end of the Book of Ezekiel, chapters 40-47. The sound of his voice was like a large group of people. He was quite unique.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 