34Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. …
And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-45)All this is a prophecy of the reign of Antiochus Epiphanes, the little horn spoken of before (Dan. 8:9) a sworn enemy to the Jewish religion, and a bitter persecutor of those that adhered to it. What troubles the Jews m 8000 et with in the reigns of the Persian kings were not so particularly foretold to Daniel as these, because then they had living prophets with them, Haggai and Zechariah, to enco…
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