Particularly intriguing for an interest in the Danielic son of man is, of course, the combined influence of Dan 7:9 and 13 in Rev 1:13-14 - that is, the use of elements of Daniel's description of the Ancient of Days ("his head and his hair were ... as white wool, '"like a flame of fire") in Revelation's description of the "one like a son of man." This suggestion that the figures of the Ancient of pays and the "one like a son of man" were in some way merged in John's vision has stimulated considerable discussion in NT scholarship. It has also posed various issues: whether it strengthens the case that the reading of Dan 7: 13 LXX was current ("as the Ancient of Days," rather than "to the Ancient of Days"); how it correlates with the issue of angel christology that is also addressed in Revelation; and whether, as with the talk of "the lamb in the midst of the throne" (Rev 7: 17; cf. 22: 1,3), it amounts simply to a merging of symbolical descriptions, or was intended to provide something more in the nature of an ontological statement about the relationship between Christ and God.