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After these disclosures regarding the time of the end, the angel of the Lord dismisses the highly-favoured prophet from his life's work with the comforting assurance that he shall stand in his own lot in the end of the days. לַקֵּץ לֵךְ evidently does not mean “go to the end, i.e., go thy way” (Hitzig), nor “go hence in relation to the end,” as Kranichfeld translates it, because לַקֵּץ with the article points back to קֵץ עֵת, Dan 12:9. For though this reference were placed beyond a doubt, yet לַקֵּץ could only declare the end of the going: go to the end, and the meaning could then with Ewald only be: “but go thou into the grave till the end.” But it is more simple, with Theodoret and most interpreters, to understand לַקֵּץ of the end of Daniel's life: go to the end of thy life (cf. for the constr. of הָלַךְ with לְ, 1Sa 23:18). With this ותָנוּחַ simply connects itself: and thou shalt rest, namely, in the grave, and rise again. תַּעֲמוֹד = תָּקוּם, to rise up, sc. from the rest of the grave, thus to rise again. לְגוֹרָלְךָ, in thy lot. גּוֹרָל, lot, of the inheritance divided to the Israelites by lot, referred to the inheritance of the saints in light (Col 1:12), which shall be possessed by the righteous after the resurrection from the dead, in the heavenly Jerusalem. הַיָמִים לְקֵץ, to = at, the end of the days, i.e., not = הַיָמִים אַחֲרִית, in the Messianic time, but in the last days, when, after the judgment of the world, the kingdom of glory shall appear. Well shall it be for us if in the end of our days we too are able to depart hence with such consolation of hope!