Matthew Poole and continuators on Daniel 11:34

34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries .

i. e. God in their affliction when it is great, wherein he never leaves himself without witness, shall raise up some succour, to be witnesses to this Truth, to vindicate his honour and save his people from utter destruction, viz. by the Maccabus. Read what Mattathias and his Sons did at Modin, 1 Macc. 2. read the chapter, who would not be flattered out of their Religion.