Nevertheless, in Dan 7:26—the
verse which describes the destruction of the last king who suppressed the
saints of the Most High (possibly the one like the son of man, as Dan 7:22
seems to distinguish the Ancient of Days from the Most High)—is not clear enough
which of the two divine characters is the author of this destruction: “But the
court will sit, and his power will be taken away and completely destroyed
forever.” According to the internal logic of the combat myth, however, it is
expected that the Divine Warrior figure (therefore the one like the son of man)
would fight, destroy the evil enemy, and save his divine people or human
subjects. (Dragoş Andrei Giulea, Pre-Nicene Christology in Paschal
Contexts: The Case of the Divine Noetic Anthropos [Supplements to Vigiliae
Christianae Texts and Studies of Early Christian Life and Language 123; Leiden:
Brill, 2014], 46 n. 17)
