Matthew Henry is a figure known to us all. He is also a figure unknown to us all. Arising from a 2014 symposium marking the tercentenary of Henry's death, this collection teaches us a good deal about the man behind the six-volume biblical commentary. It is divided into several major parts: biography, essays on Henry's biblical commentary, essays on prayer and piety, and finally the first extensive annotated bibliography of Henry's work. The biographical essays point to the relationship between Henry and his father, Philip Henry, son to a keeper of the orchard at Whitehall, and thus playmate to the young princes Charles and James. Those early experiences made him a lifelong royalist, though this did not spare him from ejection on St Bartholemew's Day in 1662. Matthew was born the same year, and this son of the Great Ejectment would go on to a dissenting ministry in Chester, dependent on the largesse of patrons and on relationships with local church officials founded, by all appearances, in mutual respect. Mutual respect, as Peter Bamford shows, was not always displayed by Chester's rival congregations, dissenting and conforming. Placing the Exposition in context is Stuart Weeks, who offers an overview of its first publication and its place amongst the period's major biblical commentaries. Several chapters explore specific issues of biblical interpretation, such as Paul Middleton's fascinating account of the strident supercessionism visible in Henry's remarks on the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 ce, and Loveday Alexander's exploration of the faithful steward of Matthew xxiv as a figure for upright ministry. The latter is also noteworthy for its suggestive reading of Henry's Exposition alongside George Hamond's funeral sermon for Richard Steel (1629–92), showing common hermeneutical dynamics in oral tradition and published commentary. Henry's Method for prayer and other writings are not shortchanged. Ligon Duncan finds Henry cultivating a style of ‘studied free prayer’, charting a middle path between rigid set prayer and indecorous extemporising. Michael A. L. Smith notes the significance of pious affection especially to the family religion so important to Henry, the Exposition, too, being a work meant to be kept and read in the household. An annotated bibliography compiled by Philip Alexander catalogues editions of Henry's writings, a project that poses significant challenges: as a figure important to Evangelical piety, editions of his writings abound, down to online editions in our own time, and these vary in quality. A standard, scholarly edition of Henry's works has never been prepared. Given this absence, it would have been all the more beneficial to have had a thorough annotated bibliography of writings in manuscript, on which Alexander provides scant detail. As is always the case with a collection of essays, quality is variable, ranging in this case from the masterful to the somewhat pedestrian. But a carefully organised whole does emerge, and in the process paints a portrait of dissent-conformity dynamics pleasing in its shades of grey.