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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, 2–4. The certainty of God’s word, and necessity of holiness in God’s house, 5. THE aLORD reigneth, bhe is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, cwherewith he hath girded himself: dthe world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved. The Lord reigneth: he is the King and Governor, not only of Israel, but of the whole world, as the last clause of the verse expounds it; and accordingly he will in his due time set up his empire over all nations, in the hands of