the universality of the message to be proclaimed. Judgment and deliverance lie in God’s hands, not ours. However, in Daniel 7:13 son of man becomes a messianic title. Eventually, in the Gospel of John, we find this title on the lips of Christ as a favorite expression of His Incarnation, marvelously incorporating the idea of the suffering servant of the prophet Isaiah with the eternal transcendence of Daniel’s son of man. In the Synoptic Gospels, Jesus uses the title “Son of man” as well (Matthew