"... Daniel 7 is the uncontested common denominator between the texts, as themes from Daniel are evident in the Similitudes 52:6, 54:6, 58:2—3, 60:2—6, and the tradition in the canonical gospels. Catchpole draws attention to the response of those being judged in Matthew that say πότε σε εἴδομεν on four occasions. He claims their inability to recognise the Son of Man indicates he is not an earthly figure, rather an exclusively heavenly figure. ‘This means that Matthew and the Similitudes incorporate in identical fashion the Daniel vii scheme in which the “one like a son of man” is an exclusively heavenly figure belonging, as it were, on the upper level of the apocalyptic double—decker framework.’ Catchpole validates this view by claiming that Matthew’s Son of Man is an earthly figure, while the non—Matthean Son of Man is the heavenly figure. However, the Sheep and the Goats is M material as part of Matthew’s larger narrative that presents Jesus as both an earthly and a heavenly figure. Matthew’s Jesus promises his disciples thrones that they will sit on while helping him judge the twelve tribes of Israel, then also describing the Son of Man’s coming humiliation and death. To call Matthew’s Jesus an exclusively earthly figure is not true to the fullness of his narrative. Matthew’s heavenly Son of Man is the same figure found in 24:30 and 26:64, both sections coming from his Markan source. Further, the failure to recognise Jesus during the judgment is not due to their inability to identify the heavenly Son of Man, it is because actions done to the least are vicariously done to Jesus, who is no longer an earthly figure. The Similitudes and Matthew do not use Daniel 7 in the exact same manner ..."