Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
Ver. 34. They shall be holpen with a little help.] With the valiant Asmonians or Maccabees, who were but a handful, and yet did great exploits against the Antiochians; so did the Hussites in Bohemia against the Pontificians. But why were they helped with a little help? That, through weaker means, they might see God's greater strength.
But many shall cleave to them with flatteries.] So did the false Samaritans. See on Daniel 11:21. And so the Donatists went to the Goths, when the Arians prevailed. Hypocrites will not sail in a storm; something they will do for God, but little or nothing it is they will suffer.