Matthew Poole was a seventeenth century English Presbyterian minister. Towards the end of his life he started work on a commentary on the Bible called Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Wherein The Sacred Text is Inserted, and various Readings Annex’d, together with the Parallel Scriptures, the more difficult Terms in each Verse are Explained, seeming Contradictions Reconciled, Questions and Doubts Resolved, and the whole Text opened. They don’t write titles like that any more, sadly.

Poole got as far as Isaiah 58 and then died, but the work was completed by friends and colleagues largely on the basis of Poole’s earlier Synopsis criticorum aliorumque Sacrae Scripturae interpretum. The section on Romans in Annotations was written by Richard Mayo.