Matthew Poole and continuators on Daniel 11:32

32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant, shall he corrupt by flatteries : but the people that do know their God, shall be strong, and do exploits .

For by Gifts, Preferments, and Promises he drew away great multitudes of this wretched people of Iudea, alwayes bent to backsliding, to his Idololatrical and Heathenish practises and interest.

They that adhere to the true Worship of God and are zealous for it, shall scorn Antiochus's Gifts, and abhorr his Ways, and defie his force, not loving their Lives to the Death; as you have many instances, 1 Macc. 1.62, 63. 2 Macc. chap. 5, 6, 7, 8. and also how Iudas Maccabeus and his few followers did exploits against Nicanor and others.

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