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, Dan 10:16, perhaps Gabriel, since he uses the same language in the following verse as he does Dan 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.