A Commentary on the Holy Bible

3 Volume Set

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Weight 8.92 lbs
Dimensions 10.25 × 7 × 4.75 in
ISBN 9780851512112
Binding

Cloth-bound

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Original Pub Date

1685

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Jan 1, 1979

page-count

3091

scripture

Whole Bible

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Book

Endorsements

‘On the whole, if I must have only one commentary, and had read Matthew Henry as I have, I do not know but what I should choose Poole. He is a very prudent and judicious commentator ; and one of the few who could honestly say, “We have not willingly balked any obvious difficulty, and have designed a just satisfaction to all our readers; and if any knot remains yet untied, we have told our readers what hath been most probably said for their satisfaction in the untying of it.” Poole is not so pithy and witty by far as Matthew Henry, but he is perhaps more accurate, less a commentator, and more an expositor. You meet with no ostentation of learning in Matthew Poole, and that for the simple reason that he was so profoundly learned as to be able to give results without a display of his intellectual crockery.’ — CHARLES H. SPURGEON

Book Description

Matthew Poole’s A Commentary on the Holy Bible was the only 17th century commentary on the whole bible to remain in extensive use until it became unobtainable in recent years.

There are some good reasons why this was so. Matthew Poole’s uncommon gift of compactness and comprehensiveness enabled him to distill into his work material that was generally spread over many folio volumes. When the exhaustiveness of Puritan literature later became a cause of disfavour, Poole’s commentary was exempt from the criticism and even in the 19th century Richard Cecil could say ‘If we must have commentators, as we certainly must, Poole is incomparable, and, I had almost said, abundant of himself.’ His supreme concern is to clarify the meaning of the text. Consequently where the meaning is plain he spends little time, but on difficult passages he is fullest and frequently gives a survey of various views with reasons for his own conviction. In this way he brings out the importance and relevance of obscure passages-particularly in the Old Testament.

Poole is clear and easy to follow. Each chapter is preceded by an outline of the contents and principal teaching. But behind his commentary there lies the massive scholarship that went into his famous Latin Synopsis. His commentary draws largely on the riches of that work but presents it in a form which makes it serviceable to a much wider circle of readers. It has been said, ‘You meet with no ostentation of learning in Matthew Poole’s commentary and that for the simple reason that he was so profoundly learned as to be able to give results without a display of his intellectual crockery.’

C.H. Spurgeon advised his students that Poole’s volumes ‘are necessities for your library’, and gave this testimony of his own experience of their worth. ‘On the whole, if I must have only one commentary, and had read Matthew Henry, as I have, I do not know but what I should choose Poole.’

Today the Commentary will be found helpful for general Christian reading, for regular reference in the Christian home, for Bible classes and for ministers and students.

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  1. Robert Ronald Garcia

    I bought his 3 volume set of books in a Christian Book Store that had a lot of older used books. The price was so low, that I forgot the cheap price; maybe 20 bucks. Now I see the set selling for over $150.00. A treasure house of understandable commentary of the whole Bible written about a hundred years before America was a Nation. In short I was bless of God to buy this set.

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