PHILIPPIANS

472,000 hits – how do I narrow it down without missing something of value?

When you "click" on a site it doesn’t take you to your specific search parameter but to a page on or from which you must search further. For example, searching to see if there was a Philippians commentary by Luther I was led to http://www.textweek.com/pauline/phil2.htm - Luther’s Sermon on Threefold Righteousness. Other sites seemed totally unrelated or too confusing. (Did Luther write a Philippians commentary? I couldn’t find it on Luther’s Works.)

"Matthew Henry (1662-1714) was a Welsh-born, English nonconformist minister and Bible commentator. He is remembered for his…multi-volume Exposition of the Old and New Testaments which is still published … He lived to complete it only as far as to the end of the Acts; but after his death certain non-conformists prepared the Epistles and Revelation from Henry's manuscripts." http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/bhenry.html

If I had not researched Matthew Henry I would not have known that he had not written the commentary on Philippians, but that "certain non-conformists" used his manuscripts in preparation. That seems like it would have been important to know, but this was not mentioned anywhere that I could find on the crosswalk.com website (see #5 below).

1. The Christian Classics Ethereal Library website on Calvin’s commentary on Philippians because it is hard for me to imagine that this is all Calvin felt was worth saying - nothing about the Christ Hymn or Kenosis, or the great joy expressed despite Paul’s imprisonment; not much of substance. http://www.ccel.org/c/calvin/comment3/comm_vol42/htm/iv.htm#_fnf9

• "The Epistle of Ignatius to the Philippians"
  http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-01/anf01-31.htm#P2846_461430

http://bible.crosswalk.com/Commentaries/MatthewHenryComplete/mhc-com.cgi?book 

The following is from the Matthew Henry Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible - Chapter 1

Chapter 1 -- "Observe, I. The persons writing the epistle - Paul and Timotheus. Though Paul was alone divinely inspired, he joins Timothy with himself, to express his own humility, and put honour upon Timothy." …

"Those who are aged, and strong, and eminent, should pay respect to, and support the reputation of, those who are younger, and weaker, and of less note."

Chapter 4 -- "It seems, there were women who laboured with Paul in the gospel; not in the public ministry (for the apostle expressly forbids that, 1 Tim. 2:12, I suffer not a woman to teach), but by entertaining the ministers, visiting the sick, instructing the ignorant, convincing the erroneous. Thus women may be helpful to ministers in the work of the gospel"