“And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.”
And in the midst of the lampstands I saw one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash across his chest — the figure "like a son of man" directly invokes Daniel 7:13 and situates the vision in the stream of apocalyptic expectation. The robe and sash suggest priestly authority; the image is majestic and transcendent, not the suffering Jesus of the Gospels but the risen Christ in his glory.
Church Fathers on Revelation 1:13
“As it were the Son of man walking in the midst of the golden candlesticks.” He says, in the midst of the churches, as it is said in Solomon, “I will walk in the midst of the paths of the just,” Proverbs 8:20 whose antiquity is immortality, and the fountain of majesty. “Clothed with a garment down to the ankles.” In the long, that is, the priestly garment, these words very plainly deliver the flesh which was not corrupted in death, and has the priesthood through…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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