33 And they that understand among the [a]people, shall instruct many: [b]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 [c]little help: but many shall cleave unto them [d]feignedly.

35 And some of them [e]of understanding shall fall to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, till the time be out: for there is a time appointed.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 11:33 They that remain constant among the people shall teach others by their example, and edify many in the true religion.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Daniel 11:34 That is, there shall be even of this small number many hypocrites.
  5. Daniel 11:35 To wit, of them that fear God and will lose their life for the defense of true religion. Signifying also that the Church must continually be tried and purged, and ought to look for one persecution after another: for God hath appointed the time: therefore we must obey.

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