32 And such as wickedly [a]break the covenant, shall he cause to sin by flattery: but the people that do know their God, shall prevail and prosper.

33 And they that understand among the [b]people, shall instruct many: [c]yet they shall fall by sword, and by flame, by captivity and by spoil many days.

34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a [d]little help: but many shall cleave unto them [e]feignedly.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 11:32 Meaning, such as bare the name of Jews, but indeed were nothing less, for they sold their souls, and betrayed their brethren for gain.
  2. Daniel 11:33 They that remain constant among the people shall teach others by their example, and edify many in the true religion.
  3. Daniel 11:33 Whereby he exhorteth the godly to constancy, although they should perish a thousand times, and though their miseries endure never so long.
  4. Daniel 11:34 As God will not leave his Church destitute, yet will he not deliver it all at once, but so help, as they may still seem to fight under the cross, as he did in the time of the Maccabees, whereof he here prophesieth.
  5. Daniel 11:34 That is, there shall be even of this small number many hypocrites.

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