Matthew Poole
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Matthew Poole (1624 - 1679), English Nonconformist theologian, was born at York, and educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
From 1649 till the passing of the Act of Uniformity 1662 held the rectory of St Michael le Querne, London. Subsequent troubles led to his withdrawal to the Netherlands, and he died at Amsterdam in 1679.
The work with which his name is principally associated is the Synopsis criticorum biblicorum (5 vols fol., 1669-1676), in which he summarizes the views of one hundred and fifty biblical critics. This book was written in Latin and is currently being translated into English by the Matthew Poole Project. (http://www.matthewpoole.net). Poole also wrote English Annotations on the Holy Bible, a work which was completed by several of his Nonconformist brethren, and published in 2 vols fol. in 1683. The work was continued by others (last edition, three volumes, 1840). [1] Frightened by the Popish plot—for Titus Oates, on account of Poole's tract on the Nullity of the Romish Faith, had represented him as marked for assassination (1678)—Poole left England and passed his last years at Amsterdam.
This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
