the “daily” represents Christ’s priestly mediation in the heavenly sanctuary. Both of these views agree that the desolating little horn described as taking away the “daily” and treading down the sanctuary and the people of God represents the Papacy. According to the first view the “daily” that was taken away is the first phase of the Roman horn’s oppressive power (paganism, replaced by the papal phase in the role of treading down God’s sanctuary and people); but according to the second view the “daily”