A hand touched me and set me trembling on my hands and knees.
Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “I have put my words in your mouth.
Then one who looked like a man touched my lips, and I opened my mouth and began to speak. I said to the one standing before me, “I am overcome with anguish because of the vision, my lord, and I feel very weak.
Again the one who looked like a man touched me and gave me strength.
While he was speaking to me, I was in a deep sleep, with my face to the ground. Then he touched me and raised me to my feet.
while I was still in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last.