Early English Printed Sermons


Of revelation and the Messias a sermon preached at the publick commencement at Cambridge, July 5th, 1696 / by Richard Bentley ...

Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742
Publisher: Printed by J H for Henry Mortlock
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1696
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A27438 ESTC ID: R5633 STC ID: B1942
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Peter, 1st, III, 15; Messiah; Revelation; Sermons, English -- 17th century;
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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 4.5% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 3.7% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 90.4% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 7.5% -inf%
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) 1.9% -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: 0.857
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament (ODRV) 7.917
Old Testament (Geneva) 4.351
New Testament (Tyndale) 4.264
New Testament (Geneva) 3.227
New Testament (ODRV) 3.148
Old Testament (AKJV) 2.24
New Testament (AKJV) 1.858
Diversity: 0.947
Evenness: 0.981
Book Prominence
1 Peter (Geneva) 11.418
Romans (AKJV) 6.157
Mark (Geneva) 3.825
Mark (AKJV) 3.787
1 John (Geneva) 3.539
1 John (ODRV) 3.533
1 Peter (Tyndale) 3.511
Galatians (ODRV) 3.415
1 John (AKJV) 3.4
Genesis (Geneva) 3.388
Acts (ODRV) 3.312
Hebrews (ODRV) 3.288
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 3.245
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 3.127
Genesis (AKJV) 3.102
Matthew (Tyndale) 2.914
Matthew (Geneva) 2.838
Psalms (ODRV) 2.79
Romans (ODRV) 2.75
Romans (Geneva) 2.54
Matthew (AKJV) 2.485
Psalms (AKJV) 1.219
Diversity: 0.962
Evenness: 0.984
Chapter Prominence
1 Peter 3 (Geneva) 8.751
Romans 10 (AKJV) 5.783
Romans 3 (AKJV) 5.753
Mark 10 (AKJV) 2.93
Mark 10 (Geneva) 2.93
Genesis 4 (Geneva) 2.924
Matthew 14 (Tyndale) 2.921
1 John 1 (Geneva) 2.917
1 John 1 (ODRV) 2.914
Psalms 149 (AKJV) 2.912
Psalms 94 (ODRV) 2.909
Genesis 1 (Geneva) 2.905
2 Corinthians 1 (ODRV) 2.899
Hebrews 10 (ODRV) 2.892
Acts 13 (ODRV) 2.892
1 John 1 (AKJV) 2.886
1 Corinthians 7 (Tyndale) 2.881
Romans 7 (ODRV) 2.878
Genesis 4 (AKJV) 2.874
Matthew 10 (Geneva) 2.873
Galatians 3 (ODRV) 2.867
1 Peter 1 (Tyndale) 2.861
Matthew 13 (AKJV) 2.854
Romans 1 (ODRV) 2.849
Matthew 25 (AKJV) 2.841
Romans 2 (ODRV) 2.834
Romans 2 (AKJV) 2.771
Matthew 5 (AKJV) 2.76
Romans 8 (Geneva) 2.754
Romans 8 (AKJV) 2.609
Diversity: 0.968
Evenness: 0.986
Verse Prominence
1 Peter 3.15 (Geneva) 7.31
Romans 3.20 (AKJV) 4.87
Romans 3.2 (AKJV) 4.869
Romans 10.14 (AKJV) 4.86
Psalms 94.4 (ODRV) 2.439
Mark 10.27 (AKJV) 2.438
Mark 10.27 (Geneva) 2.438
Matthew 14.1 (Tyndale) 2.438
1 Peter 1.20 (Tyndale) 2.438
1 Peter 1.4 (Tyndale) 2.438
2 Corinthians 1.24 (ODRV) 2.437
Matthew 10.36 (Geneva) 2.437
Galatians 3.12 (ODRV) 2.437
Romans 2.12 (ODRV) 2.437
Matthew 13.25 (AKJV) 2.436
Genesis 1.31 (Geneva) 2.436
Galatians 3.22 (ODRV) 2.436
Hebrews 10.18 (ODRV) 2.436
Acts 13.52 (ODRV) 2.436
Matthew 5.17 (AKJV) 2.435
1 John 1.8 (ODRV) 2.434
Romans 3.19 (AKJV) 2.434
1 Corinthians 7.26 (Tyndale) 2.434
Romans 2.12 (AKJV) 2.434
1 John 1.8 (AKJV) 2.432
1 John 1.8 (Geneva) 2.432
Genesis 4.7 (Geneva) 2.432
Genesis 4.7 (AKJV) 2.431
Romans 3.29 (AKJV) 2.431
Romans 8.24 (Geneva) 2.43
Romans 7.6 (ODRV) 2.43
Romans 3.23 (AKJV) 2.429
Psalms 149.8 (AKJV) 2.423
Romans 1.21 (ODRV) 2.423
Romans 8.22 (AKJV) 2.421
Matthew 25.23 (AKJV) 2.42
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
i
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 2.666
New Testament 1.805
Diversity: 0.9
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
1 John 8.566
James 8.492
Galatians 8.181
1 Peter 7.969
Deuteronomy 7.869
Genesis 7.375
Hebrews 7.214
Luke 6.782
Romans 6.045
Matthew 5.82
Diversity: 0.944
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Deuteronomy 34 5.509
Luke 7 5.433
1 John 1 5.433
Hebrews 1 5.394
Genesis 1 5.392
Genesis 4 5.389
Romans 4 5.385
Galatians 3 5.358
Matthew 19 5.355
Romans 9 5.351
Romans 10 5.328
Romans 3 5.314
Matthew 13 5.292
James 1 5.277
Matthew 10 5.26
1 Peter 1 5.23
Romans 1 5.114
Romans 8 4.953
Diversity: 0.958
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Luke 7.19 4.165
Romans 3.29 4.164
Matthew 19.26 4.162
Matthew 10.36 4.161
Galatians 3.22 4.16
Matthew 13.25 4.158
Romans 3.9 4.157
Romans 3.20 4.157
Genesis 1.31 4.155
Romans 8.22 4.155
1 Peter 1.20 4.155
Romans 4.11 4.152
1 John 1.8 4.151
Matthew 19.8 4.151
Romans 3.2 4.15
Romans 3.23 4.149
Romans 9.4 4.148
Genesis 4.7 4.144
James 1.27 4.143
Romans 1.18 4.141
Romans 10.14 4.139
Romans 1.21 4.133
Hebrews 1.3 4.131
Romans 1.20 4.101
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase