Therefore he that looked like a man touched me again, and strengthened me.

'And he addeth, and striketh against me, as the appearance of a man, and strengtheneth me,

Then again one having the form of a man put his hand on me and gave me strength.

Et addidit, hoc est, secundo, tetigit me secundum similitudinem [146] hominis, et roboravit me.

Then there came again, and touched me - The same one is here referred to doubtless who is mentioned in Daniel 10:16 - the angel. He came to him again in this condescending and familiar manner in order to allay his fears, and to prepare him to receive his communications with entire calmness.

Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man,.... Or one like a man again touched him; the same that touched him before, Daniel 10:16, perhaps Gabriel, since he uses the same language in the following verse as he does Daniel 10:11,
and he strengthened me; both in body and mind, by his free and familiar conversation with him, and the comfortable words he spoke to him, a divine power accompanying them for that purpose.

again . . . touched me--It was gradually that Daniel recovered his strength. Hence there was need of the second touch, that he might hear the angel with composure.