The interpretation of the vision is provided in Daniel 8:15–26. The appearance of one who “had the appearance of a man” (v. 15) and spoke to Gabriel is probably a reference to God himself. He is said to have spoken from “between the banks of the Ulai” river, thus perhaps depicting a hovering, as it were, in the air above the middle of the river. The reference in verse 17 to “the time of the end” and in verse 19 to “the latter end of the indignation” and “the appointed time of the end” remind us that