Matthew Poole's Synopsis Critorum (Summary of Exegetical Interpretation)

Matthew Pool wrote a massive commentary including what he considered the best of the Church Fathers, Reformation leaders, and ancient Rabbi's exegetical work on all of Scripture. He has the best coments by each for every verse of the Bible. This work is massive (80 something volumes), and can only be found in latin. He called it his Synopsis Criticorum (summary of exegetical interpretation). This is different than his Bible commentary that is on community pricing, where he provides his own annotations. If Logos is in the translation business, I think this title would be a hit! There is a translation project going on now here: http://www.matthewpoole.net/index.html.

If anyone else would be interested in this work, respond to this thread so we can see how much interest we could get in this.

Thanks!

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Liam

Spurgeon says this about this work:

If you are well enough versed in Latin, you will find in POOLE'S SYNOPSIS,[4] a marvellous collection of all the wisdom and folly of the critics. It is a large cyclopaedia worthy of the days when theologians could be cyclopean, and had not shrunk from folios to octavos. Query—a query for which I will not demand an answer—has one of you ever beaten the dust from the venerable copy of Poole which loads our library shelves? Yet as Poole spent no less than ten years in compiling it, it should be worthy of your frequent notice—ten years, let me add, spent in Amsterdam in exile for the truth's sake from his native land.
His work was based upon an earlier compilation entitled Critici Sacri, containing the concentrated light of a constellation of learned men who have never been excelled in any age or country.

Evan Boardman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/494156#Comment_494156

Sounds good,but I would like to see his commentary published in Logos first.

Christian Locatell

Yeah, Pool's Synopsis Criticorum would be great in Logos. Once this translation is done, we definitely need to get it into Logos. Looking forward to it.