Matthew Poole’s Commentary on the Holy Bible, Volumes 1

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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. Object. Ought then ministers to use no study, but talk whatever comes at their tongue’s end, and to use no reason to prove what they say? Answ. By no means. 1. It is one thing to study matter, another thing to study words. 2. Nay, it is one thing to study a decency in words, another to study a gaudery of phrase. It is an old and true saying, Verba sequuntur res, Words will follow matter, if the preacher be but of ordinary parts. In the study of words we have but two things to attend:

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