Early English Printed Sermons


Comber, Thomas, 1575-1654

Number of relevant publications in EEBO-TCP: 1
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Textual Features and Statistics

Nota Bene: QP stands for "quotation/paraphrase." A "unit" stands for a segment produced by EEPS' segmentation unit or an individual marginal note. Adjacent references are those that are located in the same or adjacent segment or note. Chapter-level citations are relevant if the chapter matches that of the query. For book-level queries, all references to the same Bible book are relevant. A "Latin Bible QP" is a quotation or paraphrase of any verse from a Bible that follows the Latin Vulgate tradition: the Vulgate, Douay-Rheims Version, the ODRV, and Wycliffe's version.
Feature Description In-Text Marginal
cited Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent citation 11.2% 1.2%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 7.3% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 85.0% 98.8%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 1.8% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 3.8% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 12.9% 1.2%
sim_score Average cosine similarity score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.8% -inf%
cross_score Average cross encoder score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.7% -inf%
near_quotations Percentage of units that have high lexical similarity with their Bible verse predictions (any type of score greater than the mean + standard deviation of that score type) 3.8% -inf%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 1.4% -inf%
foreign_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 1.0% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 1.8% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent citation 1.4% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 1.0% -inf%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text 0.4% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and italicized foreign text 0.4% -inf%



Quotations and Paraphrases

Rather than examine the frequency or proportion of references, it is far more useful to determine which references are most prominent for a citing entity. The visualizations below show the most prominent scriptural references within all publications per year. Prominence, displayed as the value below each label, is measured using the metric of Outgoing Relative Citational Prominence (ORCP) proposed by Wahle et al. (2023). In this case, a positive prominence value for a reference R in a given year means that R constitutes a greater percentage of all the references cited by publications in that year than the average citation percentage of R per year. A negative value indicates that a given reference constitutes a proportion lesser than average. A value of negative infinity means that the query reference does not occur in the citation or QP of a citing entity. A value of "%" (without any numeral value) means that there are no citations or QP corresponding to the query reference.

For quotational prominence, only the predictions with the highest cosine similarity scores for each subsegmented or whole unit of a segment or note are included for consideration. The average quotational prominence for a citing entity is the mean of the prominence percentage points for all references R_ALL that are relevant to the query reference such that each reference R in R_ALL has the highest cosine similarity score with a part or the whole of its covering body segment or marginal note. The percentages of top predictions from each Bible version are displayed in a table below.

For citational prominence, only pluasible scriptural citations and ones where the original phrase does not begin with a lowercase word are included for consideration. A scriptural citation is plausible if its numbering exists in any of the Bibles considered by this project. There are over 76 thousand such excluded candidates out of 1.2 million parsed citational units in total. Each of the four side-by-side tables below also have associated diversity and evenness scores; Simpson's Diversity Index ranges from 0 to 1 such that a higher score indicates a greater species diversity. Likewise, the Shannon Index indicates more evenness in the distribution of individuals in a group when its value approaches 1.


Diversity: 0.88
Evenness: 0.985
Part Prominence
New Testament (Wycliffe) 18.184
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 6.337
New Testament (Vulgate) 5.054
Old Testament (Geneva) 0.225
New Testament (Tyndale) 0.219
New Testament (Geneva) -0.945
New Testament (ODRV) -1.032
Old Testament (AKJV) -1.86
New Testament (AKJV) -2.058
Diversity: 0.968
Evenness: 0.994
Book Prominence
John (Wycliffe) 5.532
Romans (AKJV) 4.022
1 Chronicles (AKJV) 2.718
Romans (Vulgate) 2.638
1 Thessalonians (Geneva) 2.54
Exodus (Geneva) 2.435
1 John (Tyndale) 2.415
2 Peter (AKJV) 2.405
1 John (ODRV) 2.375
Revelation (Geneva) 2.284
1 John (AKJV) 2.266
Galatians (AKJV) 2.197
Acts (ODRV) 2.153
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 2.149
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 2.119
1 Peter (AKJV) 2.068
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 2.038
John (Tyndale) 2.02
Luke (Geneva) 2.002
John (Geneva) 2.0
Genesis (AKJV) 1.969
Isaiah (Geneva) 1.966
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.958
Romans (Tyndale) 1.938
Hebrews (AKJV) 1.773
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.714
Romans (ODRV) 1.706
John (AKJV) 1.697
Luke (AKJV) 1.68
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.656
Romans (Geneva) 1.462
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.33
Psalms (Geneva) 1.182
Diversity: 0.976
Evenness: 0.996
Chapter Prominence
John 4 (Wycliffe) 4.428
Romans 8 (AKJV) 4.109
Isaiah 50 (Geneva) 2.215
Acts 21 (ODRV) 2.213
1 Chronicles 16 (AKJV) 2.209
Genesis 50 (AKJV) 2.207
Ecclesiasticus 41 (Douay-Rheims) 2.206
Exodus 32 (Geneva) 2.205
Psalms 39 (Geneva) 2.202
Luke 2 (Geneva) 2.195
2 Corinthians 10 (Geneva) 2.188
Romans 5 (Tyndale) 2.185
Genesis 6 (AKJV) 2.179
2 Corinthians 7 (AKJV) 2.178
Romans 8 (Vulgate) 2.177
Romans 4 (ODRV) 2.175
John 14 (Tyndale) 2.165
1 John 2 (Tyndale) 2.164
Luke 22 (AKJV) 2.16
Romans 11 (Geneva) 2.16
Luke 22 (Geneva) 2.158
Revelation 22 (Geneva) 2.156
1 John 4 (ODRV) 2.153
Isaiah 1 (Geneva) 2.152
1 Corinthians 3 (ODRV) 2.149
1 Corinthians 3 (Geneva) 2.148
1 Corinthians 12 (Geneva) 2.147
1 Thessalonians 4 (Geneva) 2.14
John 5 (AKJV) 2.135
1 Corinthians 12 (Tyndale) 2.133
1 Corinthians 2 (ODRV) 2.127
John 3 (AKJV) 2.125
John 6 (Geneva) 2.125
1 Thessalonians 5 (Geneva) 2.124
2 Peter 3 (AKJV) 2.124
Galatians 3 (AKJV) 2.12
1 John 4 (AKJV) 2.116
1 Corinthians 12 (AKJV) 2.105
Romans 8 (Tyndale) 2.09
1 Peter 1 (AKJV) 2.08
Romans 8 (ODRV) 2.05
Romans 8 (Geneva) 2.033
Hebrews 11 (AKJV) 2.02
Diversity: 0.977
Evenness: 0.996
Verse Prominence
Romans 8.11 (AKJV) 4.245
John 4.24 (Wycliffe) 4.245
1 Corinthians 12.11 (Tyndale) 2.126
John 3.8 (AKJV) 2.126
Isaiah 50.10 (Geneva) 2.126
Genesis 6.16 (AKJV) 2.126
Acts 21.14 (ODRV) 2.126
Revelation 22.1 (Geneva) 2.125
1 John 2.23 (Tyndale) 2.125
1 Corinthians 12.11 (AKJV) 2.125
John 14.16 (Tyndale) 2.125
2 Corinthians 10.17 (Geneva) 2.125
Luke 2.19 (Geneva) 2.125
Romans 5.3 (Tyndale) 2.124
Romans 4.7 (ODRV) 2.124
Genesis 50.3 (AKJV) 2.124
2 Peter 3.18 (AKJV) 2.124
Romans 8.11 (Geneva) 2.123
Exodus 32.16 (Geneva) 2.123
Galatians 3.7 (AKJV) 2.123
Psalms 39.7 (Geneva) 2.123
Romans 11.29 (Geneva) 2.123
Isaiah 1.16 (Geneva) 2.123
1 Chronicles 16.22 (AKJV) 2.122
1 John 4.19 (AKJV) 2.122
2 Corinthians 7.10 (AKJV) 2.122
Ecclesiasticus 41.1 (Douay-Rheims) 2.122
Romans 8.16 (Geneva) 2.121
John 6.63 (Geneva) 2.121
1 Corinthians 2.12 (ODRV) 2.121
Romans 8.11 (ODRV) 2.119
1 Corinthians 3.16 (Geneva) 2.119
Luke 22.42 (AKJV) 2.118
John 5.28 (AKJV) 2.118
Hebrews 11.19 (AKJV) 2.117
Romans 8.9 (Vulgate) 2.116
1 Corinthians 12.4 (Geneva) 2.115
1 Peter 1.5 (AKJV) 2.115
1 Corinthians 3.16 (ODRV) 2.115
Luke 22.42 (Geneva) 2.113
Romans 8.9 (AKJV) 2.111
1 John 4.21 (ODRV) 2.11
1 Thessalonians 5.17 (Geneva) 2.11
1 Thessalonians 4.13 (Geneva) 2.109
Romans 8.14 (Tyndale) 2.108
Segment No., Location Verse & Version Verse Text Text Is a Partial Textual Segment/Note Adjacent References Cosine Similarity Score Cross Encoder Score Okapi BM25 Score



Citations
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The index of citation indicates its position within the text of the segment or a particular note of the segment. For example, if 'Note 0' (i.e., the first note) of this segment has three citations, the citation with index 0 is its first citation, inclusive of all its parsed components.

Diversity: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament 2.995
New Testament 2.093
Diversity: 0.96
Evenness: 0.996
Book Prominence
Galatians 5.581
Canticles 2.957
Malachi 2.797
2 Thessalonians 2.77
Titus 2.542
1 Thessalonians 2.517
Daniel 2.371
Colossians 2.296
1 John 2.25
2 Samuel 2.105
1 Peter 1.696
Ephesians 1.655
Exodus 1.595
Jeremiah 1.465
Job 1.453
Revelation 1.427
2 Corinthians 1.308
Genesis 1.246
Hebrews 0.92
Acts 0.691
John 0.634
Luke 0.602
1 Corinthians 0.488
Romans -0.028
Matthew -0.126
Psalms -1.33
Diversity: 0.984
Evenness: 0.997
Chapter Prominence
Ephesians 1 2.763
Galatians 5 2.713
Exodus 39 1.488
Exodus 31 1.476
Psalms 61 1.472
Jeremiah 11 1.468
Psalms 143 1.456
Psalms 97 1.452
1 Thessalonians 3 1.451
Genesis 50 1.447
Psalms 71 1.443
1 Corinthians 16 1.414
2 Corinthians 9 1.411
Psalms 33 1.401
2 Samuel 18 1.401
Canticles 2 1.4
Daniel 4 1.367
John 7 1.359
Acts 16 1.358
Genesis 6 1.351
Matthew 9 1.35
Psalms 39 1.348
Genesis 1 1.344
1 John 4 1.338
Revelation 22 1.337
Psalms 139 1.337
Luke 11 1.335
Psalms 51 1.313
Luke 2 1.308
Job 14 1.308
John 13 1.302
2 Thessalonians 2 1.3
1 Thessalonians 5 1.296
Psalms 16 1.291
1 Peter 3 1.29
Romans 11 1.283
John 4 1.282
1 Corinthians 12 1.279
Hebrews 9 1.275
1 John 2 1.272
Luke 1 1.269
John 6 1.266
1 Corinthians 2 1.265
Malachi 3 1.265
1 Thessalonians 4 1.259
Titus 2 1.259
Luke 10 1.258
John 5 1.248
2 Corinthians 6 1.247
1 Corinthians 3 1.237
Matthew 26 1.222
John 14 1.22
1 Corinthians 6 1.218
Matthew 10 1.216
Colossians 3 1.204
John 3 1.172
1 John 3 1.165
Romans 12 1.152
1 Peter 1 1.131
Hebrews 12 1.096
Ephesians 4 1.06
Hebrews 11 0.998
Matthew 5 0.992
Psalms 119 0.968
Romans 8 0.96
Diversity: 0.986
Evenness: 0.996
Verse Prominence
Genesis 6.16 2.466
Ephesians 1.13 2.448
Ephesians 1.4 2.442
Galatians 5.22 2.429
Genesis 1.24 1.234
Psalms 119.48 1.234
Jeremiah 11.2 1.233
Genesis 1.20 1.233
John 7.30 1.233
Luke 11.20 1.233
2 Samuel 18.5 1.233
Daniel 4.15 1.233
Psalms 143.6 1.233
Exodus 39.30 1.233
Canticles 2.9 1.232
Psalms 71.11 1.232
Psalms 39.8 1.232
Psalms 143.5 1.232
Genesis 1.3 1.231
Genesis 1.14 1.231
Luke 2.19 1.231
1 Thessalonians 3.13 1.231
Revelation 22.1 1.231
1 John 2.5 1.231
1 Corinthians 12.11 1.23
Psalms 71.20 1.23
Titus 2.4 1.23
Psalms 33.6 1.229
Psalms 71.18 1.229
Romans 11.29 1.227
Genesis 50.3 1.227
2 Thessalonians 2.13 1.226
John 6.63 1.226
Acts 16.25 1.226
Luke 1.71 1.226
Psalms 51.10 1.225
2 Corinthians 9.7 1.225
Genesis 1.2 1.225
1 John 4.7 1.225
1 John 4.19 1.225
Romans 12.8 1.224
1 Corinthians 2.10 1.224
Malachi 3.6 1.224
Genesis 50.10 1.224
Galatians 5.23 1.223
1 Corinthians 6.17 1.223
1 Thessalonians 5.17 1.223
Psalms 97.11 1.222
John 3.8 1.221
Psalms 139.7 1.221
1 Peter 1.16 1.221
1 Corinthians 2.12 1.22
1 Corinthians 12.12 1.219
John 13.1 1.219
Matthew 5.45 1.218
1 Peter 1.22 1.217
Hebrews 11.26 1.215
1 Corinthians 12.4 1.213
John 14.16 1.213
Psalms 16.3 1.213
2 Corinthians 6.10 1.212
Matthew 26.39 1.211
1 Peter 1.15 1.211
Matthew 10.28 1.209
Colossians 3.2 1.209
Romans 8.16 1.208
John 5.28 1.208
Romans 8.11 1.207
1 Peter 1.5 1.207
Matthew 9.11 1.205
1 John 3.3 1.201
1 Thessalonians 4.13 1.198
Matthew 5.44 1.197
Ephesians 4.24 1.195
Hebrews 12.2 1.175
Hebrews 9.27 1.164
Job 14.14 1.162
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase