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Chap. XI. D A N
him: For when he lingred and framed Excuſes, Popilius the Roman Ambatſador made a Circle about him with his Rod, commanding he ſhould not {tir thence till he gave him a pohtive preſent Anſwer ; by which, tore againſt his Will, he was fain to pack away out of Egypr, and withdraw his Gariſons and Navy thence. This made his Heart boil with Rancor, which he {pit our all againſt the Fews, therefore it's ſaid, he ſhall, &c, x Eſpecially being ſolicited to it by Ffon firit, and Menelaus a:ter, who were Apoſtates, and Betrayers of their Bre- thren, and the true Worſhip of Gad, 2 Mac, 4. 26, 27, &c. becauie Cai was in Power ; this they envied, therefore went to Antiochus,
* Ch.%., 31 Andarms ſhall ſtand on his part y, and * they ſhall
& 12. 11-pgllute the ſanAuary * of ſtrength, and ſhall take away
2: the Gaily ſacrifice, and they ſhall place the abomination
24. 21s | [] Or,a&0- That || maketh ceſolate z. nitherh, y 7.e, Antiochus ſhall come with armed Power to affiſt the Deſerters, and force the faithful Fews by his Gariſons. # He polluted the SanQtuary by taking away the Holy Veſſels, and forbidding the pub- lick Worſhip, but be added a third Pollution, by ſetting up in the Temple the Abomination of Deſolation, t. e. the abominable Idol of Fupiter Olympius, with many more, 1 Macc. 1. 21, 22, 23, 24, 41, 10 the end, 2 Mace. 5. 24. : - 32 And ſuch as do wickedly againſt the covenant, | ON,*47 ſhall he || corrupt by flatteries a: but the people - that rf do know their God, ſha!l be ſtrong, and do explorts b, + Heb. of 4 By Gifts, Perferments and Promiſes, he drew away great Multi- them har £9des of this wretched People of Fudea, always bent to Backſliding, do know, £9 his idolatrical and heatheniſh Prattices and Intereſt, b They that adhere to the true Worſhip of God, and are zealous for it, ſhall ſcorn Antiochus's Gifts, and abhor his Ways, and defy his Force, not loving their Lives to the Death; as you have many Inſtances, 1 Macc. 1. 62, 63. 2 Macc, ch, 5,6, 7, $. and alſo how Fudas Maccabeus and his few Followers dad Exploits againſt Nzcanor and others,
33 And they thar underſtand among the People, ſhall
inſtru&t many c : yet they ſhall fall by the ſword, and by *Ch 3:26. game, by captivity, and by ſpoil many * days d & 10. 14, J y P ILY, y 1POlI any y :
c Such as Eleazar, that old Scribe, 2 Macc. 6. 18. and ſome others tearned in the Laws of God,and holy in Heart and Life, ſhall inſtru many in the righteous ways of God, and retain them from Apoſtacy when others fall off, 4 Many of the People ſhall fall, yea of their pious and learned Teachers, as well as their Dilciples, x Macc.1. 52, 66. 2 Macc, 6,
34 Now when they ſhall fall, they ſhall be holpen with a little help : but many ſhall cleave to them with
fAatteries e.
e i, e. God in their Affidtion, when it is great, wherein he never leaves himſelf without Witneſs,ſfhall raiſe up ſome Succour,to be Wit- neſſes to this Truth, to vindicate his Honour, and ſave his People from utter DeſtruQion, viz. by the Maccabees. Read what Martathias and his Sons did at Modin, (1 Macc, 2, read the Chapter) who would not pe flattered out of their Religion,
35 And ſome of them of underſtanding ſhall * fall, to try || them f, and to purge, and to make them white, ever to the time of the end : becauſe zt vs yet for a time ap- pointed 2.
f We ſee hereby that the beſt of Men have ſome Droþ,which makes AffiQtions, yea firy Trials neceſſary for them ; for the word ſignifies ali kind of Examination and Trials, either as Founders try Metals to purge them. or as Corn is winnowed to cleanſe it from Chaff, or as Fullers that waſh and ſcour to take out Spots, Mal. 3. 1, 2, 3- g Now mark, here the Spirit of God ſeems to ſlide into the Romaxy Monarchy, for this began in the Reign of 4ntzochus,ſo that he did begin that which the Romans afterward in Iroceis of time acted more highly againſt the Fews and Chrifians tov. For Antiochus is made by all a Type of Anti- ckrift, as Maldonate confeſſeth. And thus you find the Prophets, and our Saviour too intermixing Hiſtory and Prophecy. David brings in C hriſt, 7ſal, 72. 8. when the reſt is ſpoken of Solomon. So Pjal. 16. Iſa. 49, 54. and 60. So our Saviour ſpeaking of the Temple, ſpeaks with it of the end or the World : and thus the end of this Chapter is clearly of Antichriſt,and this Prophecy of Danzel end's with the World's end. Therefore Antiochus is a Type of Antichriſt, in his Pride, Cove- touſnels, Craft, and Cruelty againſt the People of God, and Blaſphe- mies and Tdolatrics, to the Reproach of Chriſt, Therefore it is here added, becauſe 7t is yet for the time appointed.
36 And the king þ ſhall do according to his will z, and he ſhall exalt himſelf, and magnify himſelf above * Ch. 7.5-every god, and * ſhall ſpeak marvellous things againſt & 3. 25- the God of gods k, and ſhall proſper till the indignation
be accompliſhed 1 ; for that that is- determined, ſhall be
done Mm.
h The King, i. e. the Roman Government, whether by the Senate, or by Emperors, or by the Biſhop of Rome, who ſhall drive our the 1m- perial Power not only from Kome, but from 7Jraly, and all the Weſterz Empire as far as he could, by ftriking in with the barbarous Nations that invaded it, who are called ter Xivgs. Read for all this Rev. 17.
* 30,11,12,13. 25 all the ſeven or eight Governments of Rome are called Horns, and the Horns Xings, ver. 10,11. The Sum is this, though it 3s granted ſome of theſe things are applicable to Antiochus, yet the An- zel ſpeaks of him here and henceforward but by the by, and very lightly : His main Scope is Anrickriſt, as will appear in the Interpre-
* Ch. 12.
LO. [] Or, by them,
37 Neither ſhall he regard the God of his fathers ” nor the delire of Women 0, nor regard any g£0d : for a, (hall magnify himſelf above all.