Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a (p) little help: but many shall cleave to them (q) with flatteries.
(p) As God will not leave his Church destitute, yet he will not deliver it all at once, but help in such a way that they may still seem to fight under the cross, as he did in the time of the Maccabees, of which he here prophesies.
(q) That is, there will even be among this small number many hypocrites.