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Matthew Poole was one of the most influential Puritan ministers and thinkers of the seventeenth century. A Protestant clergyman in England during a time of religious persecution, he fled the country due to threats of assassination. Poole was known as a devoted Christian, full of integrity and perseverance, in addition to being a great theologian and writer. His commentary series has been a...

power of God, 1 Cor. 1:18, because of that admirable virtue and success which accompanied the preaching of it. Or, 2. The Messiah, who also is called the arm or power of God, 1 Cor. 1:24; and that most fitly, because the almighty power of God was both seated in him, and declared and exercised by him in his powerful words and mighty deeds, as Simon for some great works wrought by him was called by the Samaritans the power of God, Acts 8:10. Revealed; not outwardly, for so Christ was revealed and preached