language is intended to convey information or impressions and Caird may be underestimating the significance of the detail of the vision. Is it not in coming into the presence of the Ancient of Days and receiving a place of honour from him that we recognise that the ‘one like a Son of Man’ is receiving authority and vindication? This echo of Daniel 7 appears to indicate that some event will take place which will be an open vindication of Jesus before ‘the tribes of the earth’ although the precise