Some of them of understanding shall fall Some of the principal men for piety and knowledge shall fall under this persecution, and suffer grievous miseries and torments: see Daniel 11:33. To try them, and to purge, &c. For the trial of their faith and patience, and to purge them from those corruptions which are the usual effects of prosperity: compare 1 Peter 1:7: and to make it the more evident how sincere they were in their profession, and that no temptations or sufferings could induce them to violate God's law, and act contrary to their duty. The persecutions which were to befall the church under antichrist were and are designed for the same purpose, as appears by comparing Dan 12:10 with the words here; Antiochus's persecution being a type and figure of that under antichrist. Even to the time of the end Namely, the time appointed by God for the ending of these calamities. Because it is yet for a time appointed It will be still some time before a deliverance will be granted: or, these calamities are appointed to last for some time. Mr. Mede refers the latter part of this sentence to the following verse, and so connects the following prophecy with what went before, thus: “This persecution shall last to the time of the end; for as yet, for a time appointed, a king shall do according to his will.”
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Daniel 11:35
35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge,j and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.