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Illustration from the Bamberg Apocalypse of the Son of Man among the seven lampstands The Vision of John on Patmos by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1860). John's vision of the Son of Man, also known as John’s Vision of Christ, is a vision described in the Book of Revelation (Revelation 1:9–20) in which the author, identified as John, sees a person he describes as one "like the Son of Man" ().
The race and appearance of Jesus, widely accepted by researchers to be a Judean from Galilee, [1] has been a topic of discussion since the days of early Christianity. Various theories about the race of Jesus have been proposed and debated.
This suggest that angels are linked to God and that they are more than mere messengers, but they also play an important theophonic role. [ 5 ] The description is also similar to that of the transfigured Christ at Matthew 17:2 , but Boring suggests that the angel in that verse was a bit less in glory from Jesus, showing his more divine nature. [ 6 ]
as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. [33] "Sapphire" (Hebrew: ספיר): "a kind of gem"; "lapis lazuli" (Ezekiel 28:13). [34] [35] Exodus 24:10 records "a pavement of sapphire" under the feet of God. [36]
According to Wayne Grudem, "the God of the Bible is no abstract deity removed from, and uninterested in his creation". [16] Grudem goes on to say that the whole Bible "is the story of God's involvement with his creation", but highlights verses such as Acts 17:28, "in him we live and move and have our being". [16]
The formulation of this verse is known as the Imitatio Dei; a similar verse appears in Luke 6:36. The verse might be modeled on Leviticus 19:2, which says in the King James Version: "Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, You shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy." [2]