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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Daniel 11:33 - 11:33
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they that understand - who know and keep the truth of God (Isa 11:2).
instruct many - in their duty to God and the law, not to apostatize.
yet they shall fall - as Eleazar (2 Maccabees 6:18, etc.). They shall be sorely persecuted, even to death (Heb 11:35, Heb 11:36, Heb 11:37; 2 Maccabees 6, 7). Their enemies took advantage of the Sabbath to slay them on the day when they would not fight. Tregelles thinks, from comparison with Dan 11:35, it is the people who “fall,” not those of understanding. But Dan 11:35 makes the latter “fall,” not an unmeaning repetition; in Dan 11:33 they fall (die) by persecution; in Dan 11:35 they fall (spiritually) for a time by their own weakness.
flame - in caves, whither they had retired to keep the Sabbath. Antiochus caused some to be roasted alive (2 Maccabees 7:3-5).
many days - rather, “certain days,” as in Dan 8:27. Josephus [Antiquities, 12:7.6, 7] tells us the persecution lasted for three years (1 Maccabees 1:59; 4:54; 2 Maccabees 10:1-7).