Matthew Poole and continuators on Daniel 11:21

21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person , to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom : but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

Antiochus called Epiphan[illegible: 1 letter]s, i. e. illustrious; thus he was called by his flatterers and admirers: but the people of God accounted him contrary, i. e. infamous, base, treacherous, barbarous, such were his manners, and accordingly the Angel calls him here a vile person, the type of Antichrist, Epimanes a mad Persecutor.

i. e. Neither Peers nor people, nor was he the Heir, but his Nephew, or Brother, Philopators Son, but he cheated him of the Kingdom, and crope in by flatteries, i. e. he was a great flatterer of the Romans, as well as of his people, till he gat up, and shut out Demetrius the Son of Seleucus; so vile a flatterer was he, that he would bathe in the same bath, with mean people, to make them believe he was good natured, and not proud. He soothed and courted the Nobles with much kindness, and presents, and said he was but guardian to his Brothers Son the Heir, till he destroyed him.