Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

While not being a work of textual research for which Henry recommended Matthew Poole's Synopsis Criticorum Henry's Exposition gives the result of a critical account of the original as of his time with practical application.  . After the author's death the work was finiMatthew Henryd (Romans through Revelation) by thirteen other nonconformist ministers partly based upon notes taken by Henry's hearers and edited by George Burder and John Hughes in 1811.

Matthew Henry (18 October 1662 – 22 June 1714) was an English commentator on the Bible and Presbyterian minister.