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The author of the book.
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Remember he spent the whole first part of the book
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setting up Daniel as a wise man.
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So this author writing under the name of Daniel,
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a wise man, identifies other wise Jews of his own day
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and he says they're going to oppose Antiochus IV
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and some of them will die because of it.
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"When they fall victim they shall receive a little help
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and many shall join them insincerely."
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Some scholars believe that this "Little help"
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may be this author's reference to Judas Maccabeus.
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It may be that he knows that there is an armed resistance,