I'm preaching on John's gospel at the moment. According to my library I have 140 commentaries on that book. Even allowing for the bad data in the "publication date" field, it seems only 3 were published between 1500 and 1750:
- Luther’s Works, Volume 24 (1537)
- Calvin's Commentary on the Gospel according to John and John: Crossway Classic Commentaries (1553)
- An Exposition with Notes, Unfolded and Applied, on John 17 by George Newton (1660)
That's 250 years of important church history, and I only have effectively three works (because the Crossway volume is a simplification of Calvin) - despite owning the Classic Commentaries collection, which seem often to focus entirely on the period 1850-1923.
Now it's quite possible I've missed some, but I doubt I've missed enough to nullify the point.
Some worthy commentaries that seem to be missing entirely include those by Anthony Burgess (1656), Arthur Hildersham (1628) George Hutcheson (1657), and John Trapp (1650). There must be others. Hutcheson and Trapp I'd be particularly keen to see. Trapp has been on Community pricing for a year, but has has barely got off the ground. I suspect people haven't realised he covers the whole Bible over nearly 5,000 pages, and have bid too low.
