Quote by Matthew Henry
“And as to the pleasure of a scholar removed from religion, it is indeed rational and intellectual; but it is only the pleasure of the mind in knowing truths, and not its enjoying good. Solomon, who had as much of this pleasure as ever any man has had, and as nice a taste of it, yet has assured us from his own experience that in much wisdom of this kind is much grief, and “he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow” (Ecclesiastes 1:18). But the pleasures which a holy soul has in knowing God and in communion with him are not only of a spiritual nature, but they are satisfying; they fill the soul, and make a happiness adequate to its best affections.”
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Henry's well-known Exposition of the Old and New Testaments (1708-1710) is a commentary of a practical and devotional rather than of a critical kind, covering the whole of the Old Testament, and the Gospels and Acts in the New Testament. After the author's death, the work was finished by a number of ministers, and edited by George Burder and John Hughes in 1811. Not a work of textual criticism, its attempt at good sense, discrimination, its high moral tone and simple piety with practical application, combined with the well-sustained flow of its English style, made it one of the most popular works of its type. Matthew Henry's six volume Complete Commentary, originally published in 1706, provides an exhaustive verse by verse study of the Bible. His commentaries are still in use to this day.