Matthew Poole and continuators on Daniel 10:21

21 But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth : and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince .

i. e. In the peremptory decree and purpose of God; more authentick and unalterable than the Lawes of the Medes and Persians. Now God hath appointed to deliver the Iews from the Persians by the Greek; and from the Greek[illegible: 1 letter] by the Maccabees, especially the Seleucids and Lagids; and how the Romans should come after, and plague the people of God long, both by the persecuting Emperors, and by Antichrist, and how that also should have an end.

Jesus Christ alone is the Champion, and Protector of his Church, and that all-sufficient; when all the Princes of the Earth besides deserted or opposed it. For it cannot be meant of Angels in any sound sense, as Popish Interpreters would have it, thereby to countenance their Angel-worship; for can we imagine upon rational and orthodox Principles, that the Angels of Heaven should be divided into Parties, and but two of them mind the cause of the Church of God, with other like absurdities, which accompany the Popish sense that Maldonate, a Lapide, &c. fasten upon this Scripture.

Marginal references: Heb. strengtheneth himself.