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thinks of Queen Anne, these days? And who, excepting, possibly, an historian, remembers a single thing she ever said or did? Yet among English speaking peoples, Matthew Henry is still a house hold word, and his Commentary is con stantly used by hundreds and thou sands of Christian workers. Here we have the work of a single man extend ing to more than eight million words retaining its freshness and stimulating quality for more than two hundred years! Of what other work of such magnitude can such a statement be truthfully made? Even before the death of its author, the racy English style of Matthew Henry’s “ Exposition” had secured for it the foremost place among works of its kind. In a certain, yet very defi nite sense, that place it still retains. A vast amount of expository and exegeti- cal water has flowed under theologi cal bridges since 1700. Critics, com mentators, expositors, exegetists, have come and gone. And, in the main, their work has gone with them. But, like the Tennysonian brook, Matthew Henry goes on forever. He has withstood both the assaults of critics and the winnow ing of Time. And in this year of grace, 1922, he occupies a highly valued, unique, unassailable place among ex positors of Holy Scripture. This statement is no far-fetched hyperbole or advertising “ blurb.” It is a statement of plain, literal fact. Preachers and teachers do still use Mat thew Henry’s Commentary, and that continually; and using it, find in it a wealth of spiritual insight, of sound logical expository excellence, much clear thinking and stimulation for their own mental powers. "No matter'what may be asserted to the contrary,” said Dr. J. D. Jones of Bournemouth, England, less than a year ago, “it is simply arrant nonsense to talk of dispensing with Matthew Henry. He is more stimulating, more sugges tive, when, in the light of present-day
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