Matthew Poole (1624-79), author of the famous Synopsis Criticorum Biblicum, was a seventeenth century ecclesiastical leader, nonconformist, apologist and minister in England. Poole...view moreMatthew Poole (1624-79), author of the famous Synopsis Criticorum Biblicum, was a seventeenth century ecclesiastical leader, nonconformist, apologist and minister in England. Poole is best remembered for his Synopsis in the scholarly Latin tongue, and his English language Annotations upon the Holy Bible.view less