Two major conclusions are indicated from all of that. One is that this whole stream of tradition, far from starting on the lips of Jesus, began only after his crucifixion with meditation on Zechariah 12:10, then moved on to combine Daniel 7:13 with that prophecy, and finally left only the barest vestige of those beginnings in the perdurance of the see verb for the apocalyptic judge. Another is that, despite a common background in Daniel 7:13, some early traditions felt no need to speak in a titular way of Jesus as Son of Man even if others did. So, on the one hand, Paul and Didache 16 presume
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