of essays on Biblical interpretation, antiquities, textual criticism and exegesis by the most significant theologians of the time. At the beginning of the 19th century, the theologian Adam Clarke considered Critici sacri the most important collection of Biblical criticism ever made, and in the 21st century it is still recognized as a great work. In fiction Gouldman was an interlocutor along with the 2nd-century grammarian Hesychius in one of the satirical dialogues of William King. "Gouldman" chides the ancient lexicographer for boasting of the attention he receives from pedants, pointing out that philological learnedness has little value for the man of action. References 1600s births 1680s deaths English lexicographers 17th-century English Anglican priests Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge 17th-century English writers 17th-century English male writers