Early English Printed Sermons


The necessity dignity and duty of Gospel ministers discoursed of before the University of Cambridge.

Hodges, Thomas, d. 1688
Publisher: Printed for William Rogers
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1685
Approximate Era: JamesII
TCP ID: A44072 ESTC ID: R13341 STC ID: H2321
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Matthew V, 13; Pastoral theology; 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 5.0% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 1.6% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 81.7% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.5% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.3% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 5.7% -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) 2.6% -inf%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.3% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.5% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.3% -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: 0.656
Evenness: 0.739
Part Prominence
New Testament (ODRV) 45.112
Apocrypha (AKJV) 1.692
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -2.302
Old Testament (Geneva) -3.685
New Testament (Tyndale) -3.772
New Testament (Geneva) -4.808
Old Testament (AKJV) -5.796
New Testament (AKJV) -6.178
Diversity: 0.949
Evenness: 0.93
Book Prominence
Matthew (ODRV) 15.253
Matthew (Geneva) 6.246
Colossians (ODRV) 5.142
1 Kings (AKJV) 3.423
2 Corinthians (Tyndale) 3.26
Malachi (Geneva) 1.773
Amos (Douay-Rheims) 1.727
2 Kings (Geneva) 1.684
2 Timothy (Tyndale) 1.64
Jude (AKJV) 1.59
2 Esdras (AKJV) 1.587
Leviticus (AKJV) 1.577
1 Timothy (Tyndale) 1.564
Lamentations (AKJV) 1.533
2 Timothy (Geneva) 1.51
Colossians (Geneva) 1.474
Titus (AKJV) 1.398
2 Timothy (AKJV) 1.32
Acts (Tyndale) 1.318
Revelation (ODRV) 1.299
Job (Douay-Rheims) 1.275
1 Peter (AKJV) 1.064
Acts (AKJV) 1.018
Genesis (AKJV) 0.953
Isaiah (Geneva) 0.946
Job (AKJV) 0.858
John (ODRV) 0.796
Matthew (Tyndale) 0.766
John (AKJV) 0.668
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 0.662
Romans (ODRV) 0.601
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 0.58
Isaiah (AKJV) 0.569
Proverbs (AKJV) 0.449
Romans (Geneva) 0.392
Matthew (AKJV) 0.337
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.284
Romans (AKJV) 0.009
Psalms (AKJV) -0.929
Diversity: 0.963
Evenness: 0.945
Chapter Prominence
Matthew 5 (ODRV) 13.42
Matthew 5 (Geneva) 5.916
Colossians 4 (ODRV) 4.511
2 Corinthians 2 (Tyndale) 3.025
1 Kings 2 (AKJV) 3.013
Leviticus 2 (AKJV) 1.511
2 Kings 2 (Geneva) 1.508
2 Esdras 9 (AKJV) 1.505
Job 6 (Douay-Rheims) 1.504
Malachi 2 (Geneva) 1.503
Genesis 47 (AKJV) 1.503
Amos 8 (Douay-Rheims) 1.498
Matthew 28 (Tyndale) 1.493
Revelation 1 (ODRV) 1.492
Colossians 4 (Geneva) 1.488
Job 6 (AKJV) 1.486
Genesis 19 (AKJV) 1.485
Acts 4 (Tyndale) 1.485
Psalms 141 (AKJV) 1.485
2 Timothy 4 (Tyndale) 1.484
Isaiah 53 (Geneva) 1.478
Proverbs 7 (AKJV) 1.478
Proverbs 15 (AKJV) 1.471
Lamentations 4 (AKJV) 1.468
Isaiah 57 (Geneva) 1.462
Proverbs 25 (AKJV) 1.46
Proverbs 27 (AKJV) 1.451
1 Timothy 2 (Tyndale) 1.448
Acts 17 (AKJV) 1.447
2 Timothy 2 (Geneva) 1.447
Romans 10 (Geneva) 1.444
1 Corinthians 3 (ODRV) 1.442
John 8 (AKJV) 1.434
John 10 (ODRV) 1.434
2 Timothy 4 (AKJV) 1.433
1 Corinthians 1 (Geneva) 1.423
Psalms 34 (AKJV) 1.421
Romans 10 (ODRV) 1.419
Romans 10 (AKJV) 1.416
Matthew 25 (ODRV) 1.403
Matthew 23 (AKJV) 1.402
Isaiah 1 (AKJV) 1.39
Romans 3 (AKJV) 1.386
1 Peter 1 (AKJV) 1.383
1 Corinthians 14 (AKJV) 1.377
Titus 2 (AKJV) 1.358
1 Peter 2 (AKJV) 1.35
Matthew 6 (AKJV) 1.344
Matthew 5 (AKJV) 1.334
Jude 1 (AKJV) 1.333
Psalms 119 (AKJV) 1.295
Diversity: 0.97
Evenness: 0.95
Verse Prominence
Matthew 5.13 (ODRV) 11.824
Matthew 5.13 (Geneva) 5.259
Matthew 5.13 (AKJV) 3.945
Colossians 4.6 (ODRV) 3.94
2 Corinthians 2.15 (Tyndale) 2.63
1 Kings 2.27 (AKJV) 2.624
2 Kings 2.19 (Geneva) 1.316
Genesis 19.26 (AKJV) 1.315
Isaiah 1.22 (AKJV) 1.315
Lamentations 4.1 (AKJV) 1.315
1 Corinthians 14.8 (AKJV) 1.315
Genesis 47.22 (AKJV) 1.315
1 Timothy 2.10 (Tyndale) 1.314
Job 6.6 (Douay-Rheims) 1.314
Proverbs 7.24 (AKJV) 1.314
2 Esdras 9.37 (AKJV) 1.314
Matthew 23.3 (AKJV) 1.314
Colossians 4.4 (Geneva) 1.314
Leviticus 2.13 (AKJV) 1.313
Acts 17.16 (AKJV) 1.313
Romans 3.13 (AKJV) 1.313
Proverbs 27.22 (AKJV) 1.313
Job 6.6 (AKJV) 1.312
Matthew 5.14 (ODRV) 1.312
Psalms 34.6 (AKJV) 1.312
Romans 10.15 (Geneva) 1.311
Acts 4.20 (Tyndale) 1.311
Isaiah 57.20 (Geneva) 1.311
Matthew 25.30 (ODRV) 1.311
Matthew 5.15 (AKJV) 1.31
Matthew 28.19 (Tyndale) 1.31
Malachi 2.7 (Geneva) 1.31
Revelation 1.20 (ODRV) 1.31
John 10.28 (ODRV) 1.31
Matthew 23.14 (AKJV) 1.309
2 Timothy 4.2 (AKJV) 1.309
John 8.12 (AKJV) 1.309
Romans 10.17 (Geneva) 1.308
Romans 10.17 (AKJV) 1.308
Amos 8.11 (Douay-Rheims) 1.308
Proverbs 15.8 (AKJV) 1.307
2 Timothy 4.2 (Tyndale) 1.307
Proverbs 25.11 (AKJV) 1.307
Matthew 6.23 (AKJV) 1.307
2 Timothy 2.15 (Geneva) 1.307
Psalms 119.103 (AKJV) 1.306
Isaiah 53.3 (Geneva) 1.306
Psalms 141.3 (AKJV) 1.306
1 Corinthians 3.12 (ODRV) 1.305
Titus 2.1 (AKJV) 1.304
Matthew 23.2 (AKJV) 1.304
Romans 10.15 (AKJV) 1.302
Jude 1.23 (AKJV) 1.302
1 Peter 2.2 (AKJV) 1.299
1 Peter 1.15 (AKJV) 1.299
Romans 10.14 (AKJV) 1.298
1 Corinthians 1.23 (Geneva) 1.295
Romans 10.17 (ODRV) 1.286
Matthew 5.17 (ODRV) 1.273
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 2.666
New Testament 1.805
Diversity: 0.934
Evenness: 0.992
Book Prominence
Luke 8.547
1 Chronicles 5.274
Malachi 5.086
Zechariah 4.962
Leviticus 4.907
Mark 4.576
2 Kings 4.564
1 John 4.448
1 Kings 4.406
James 4.375
Ezekiel 4.278
2 Samuel 4.268
1 Samuel 4.1
Proverbs 2.835
Acts 2.679
Matthew 1.702
Diversity: 0.948
Evenness: 0.994
Chapter Prominence
Luke 14 9.38
1 Chronicles 24 4.755
Leviticus 2 4.747
Ezekiel 44 4.743
Zechariah 11 4.723
Leviticus 10 4.711
2 Samuel 2 4.691
2 Kings 2 4.69
1 Kings 2 4.689
Malachi 2 4.684
Mark 9 4.655
Proverbs 25 4.651
James 3 4.607
1 Samuel 2 4.587
Matthew 28 4.521
Matthew 23 4.482
Acts 2 4.46
Acts 17 4.44
1 John 3 4.436
Matthew 5 4.205
Diversity: 0.957
Evenness: 0.995
Verse Prominence
Luke 14.34 7.997
Leviticus 2.12 3.999
2 Samuel 2.30 3.999
1 Chronicles 24.3 3.999
Ezekiel 44.10 3.999
Ezekiel 44.12 3.999
Ezekiel 44.13 3.999
Leviticus 2.3 3.998
James 3.12 3.998
Ezekiel 44.11 3.998
2 Kings 2.19 3.997
Malachi 2.3 3.996
1 Kings 2.27 3.996
Zechariah 11.17 3.994
Leviticus 10.2 3.992
Mark 9.50 3.991
Leviticus 10.1 3.991
Matthew 5.13 3.983
Matthew 23.23 3.977
Proverbs 25.11 3.97
1 John 3.3 3.969
Acts 2.37 3.965
Matthew 28.19 3.935
1 Samuel 2.30 3.935
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase