9:24–27 and the historical time frame of the little horn as coming between pagan Rome and God’s eschatological kingdom. Is there internal contextual evidence for this “day for a year” principle? Yes there is. In Daniel 8:13, the angel asks “until when” (‘ad-mātai), not “how long” (NIV), “will be the vision,” which includes the continual service “and the transgression causing horror … to make both sanctuary and host a trampling?”19 What is the meaning of the “vision” here? Is it the entire vision