Friday, February 11, 2022

Peter R. Carrell: John, in the Book of Revelation, understands Daniel's "Ancient of Days" and "the Most High" to Be the Same Person

  

. . . the question might be raised that the conjunction of both 'the Ancient of Days' and 'the Most High' ('lywnyn) in Daniel 7.22 would have led John to believe that two different beings were implied. That is, on the premise that there was one God only, it is theoretically possible that John might have distinguished the Ancient of Days from the Most High. But, given the likelihood that the Ancient of Days was understood to be God and that 'the Most High' would be an unusual title to apply to any being other than God, it is reasonable to suppose that John would have understood the two different titles in the one verse to apply to the one God. (Peter R. Carrell, Jesus and the Angels: Angelology and the Christology of the Apocalypse of John [Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 95; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997], 37, emphasis in bold added)