Daniel 7:25

'they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time' — near-verbatim source for 'a time, and times, and half a time' (kairon kai kairous kai hēmisu kairou); fixes the 3.5-year tribulation period of the woman's nourishment.

'Authority... for forty-two months' renders Daniel's 'time, times, and half a time' (Dan 7:25 = 3.5 yrs = 42 months), and 'speak words against the Most High and wear out the saints.' Both the blasphemy and the period derive here. Distinctive and recurrent (cf. Rev 11:2-3; 12:14).

The little horn that 'speaks words against the Most High' and exalts itself supplies the blasphemous self-deification of the man of sin.

Daniel's little horn that 'wears out the saints of the Most High' for an appointed time supplies the apocalyptic pattern of the faithful handed over to persecuting authorities before vindication. Mark's councils, beatings, and kings before whom believers stand instantiate the saints' tribulation under hostile rulers, a Danielic frame the discourse repeatedly invokes.

Forty-two months = 'time, times, and half a time' (3.5 years), the Danielic measure of the saints handed over to the oppressor. Recurs across Rev (11:2,3; 12:6,14; 13:5). Coherence with the broader Daniel-7 beast/persecution matrix is strong; the numerical symbolism is the load-bearing link.

1,260 days = the 3.5-year Danielic measure (here as days rather than months, cf. 11:2). Ties the witnesses' prophetic period to the saints' appointed time of testimony/oppression. Recurrent across Rev's time-symbolism.

The horn that speaks words against the Most High and wears out the saints anticipates the antichrist who arises in the last hour to oppose God. Daniel's eschatological adversary informs the figure of many antichrists.

The little horn wears out the saints of the Most High, who are given into his hand for a time. Jesus' forecast of persecution, betrayal, and death of his followers fits the Danielic pattern of the saints handed over before final vindication. Recurrence within the apocalyptic source of the discourse.

The 'three and a half days' the bodies lie exposed mirrors, in miniature, the 3.5 time-unit of Danielic affliction (years/months/days across the chapter). The half-week of death/dishonor compresses the persecution measure. Symbolic link.

'After the three and a half days' again invokes the Danielic 3.5 measure (here the death-interval reversed by resurrection). Maintains the chapter's pervasive half-week symbolism.

'A time, times, and half a time' — the 1260 days (3.5 years) reckons the same Danielic period of tribulation; numeric allusion rather than verbal. Explicit verbal echo surfaces at 12:14.

Economic exclusion ('no one able to buy or sell') develops the beast's total dominion over the saints from Dan 7:25 (wearing out the saints, changing times and law); the mark enforces that sovereignty in daily commerce. Thematic, faint.

'He shall... continue for a time, times and half a time' — the appointed limited span colors 'he must continue a little while.' Faint structural parallel of bounded time. Hays: low.