“ And the situation of the world was shewn unto him until the son of man came in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory, and got a kingdom in which all people, nations and languages should serve him. Reader, reflect! and see what a vast of knowledge this man Daniel must have obtained in these visions, which no man could communicate to his fellow man: his ideas must have been much clearer on all the scenes which passed before him in vision, than the mind of any person could be to whom he only told it, or who had no idea of those things only what he had received from others. ”

“ And one cried unto another, and said, holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
In this vision the prophet both saw and heard: he saw the Lord, as well as those who attended him; and beyond all controversy must have obtained great knowledge of future things and of the eternal world, so as to be a great support to him through the great afflictions which he had afterwards to endure for righteousness' sake ”

“ Must not the vision itself have had greater influence upon the mind than the relation of it could have? Every rational being would answer, that it would; and Daniel must have known many things which he could not communicate.
In the 10th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, we have an account of a vision of Cornelius of Cesarea, a Roman centurion, in which he saw an angel of God coming in to him and talking with him, and giving direction to him how to proceed in order to be saved. ”