Ver. 31.--Then (B.C. 168) shall come the climax of horror. Antiochus shall send troops to the Holy Land, who shall desecrate the sanctuary and fortress of the Temple, and abolish the daily sacrifice (Kisleu 15), and set up the abomination that maketh desolate.[703] Ver. 32.--To carry out these ends the better, and with the express purpose of putting an end to the Jewish religion, he shall pervert or "make profane" by flatteries the renegades who are ready to apostatise from the faith of their fathers. But there shall be a faithful remnant who will bravely resist him to the uttermost. "_The people who know their God will be valiant, and do great deeds._" Ver. 33.--To keep alive the national faith "_wise teachers of the people shall instruct many_," and will draw upon their own heads the fury of persecution, so that many shall fall by sword, and by flame, and by captivity, and by spoliation for many days. Ver. 34.--But in the midst of this fierce onslaught of cruelty they shall be "_holpen with a little help_." There shall arise the sect of the _Chasidîm_, or "the Pious," bound together by _Tugendbund_ to maintain the Laws which Israel received from Moses of old.[704] These good and faithful champions of a righteous cause will indeed be weakened by the false adherence of waverers and flatterers. Ver. 35.--To purge the party from such spies and Laodiceans, the teachers, like the aged priest Mattathias at Modin, and the aged scribe Eleazar, will have to brave even martyrdom itself till the time of the end. FIFTH SECTION (vv. 36-45, B.C. 147-164).--Events from the beginning of the Maccabean rising to the death of Antiochus Epiphanes. Ver. 36.--Antiochus will grow more arbitrary, more insolent, more blasphemous, from day to day, calling himself "God" (Theos) on his coins, and requiring all his subjects to be of his religion,[705] and so even more kindling against himself the wrath of the God of gods by his monstrous utterances, until the final doom has fallen. Ver. 37.--He will, in fact, make himself his own god, paying no regard (by comparison) to his national or local god, the Olympian Zeus, nor to the Syrian deity, Tammuz-Adonis, "the desire of women."[706] "Tammuz came next behind, Whose yearly wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer day. While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea--supposed with blood Of Tammuz yearly wounded. The love tale Infected Zion's daughters with like heat." Ver. 38.--The only God to whom he shall pay marked respect shall be the Roman Jupiter, the god of the Capitol. To this god, to Jupiter Capitolinus, not to his own Zeus Olympios, the god of his Greek fathers, he shall erect a temple in his capital city of Antioch, and adorn it with gold and silver and precious stones.[707]