Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached at White-Hall in Lent, March the 16, 1682/3 by Richard Meggott ...

Meggott, Richard, d. 1692
Publisher: Printed for Walter Kettilby
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1683
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A50548 ESTC ID: R17024 STC ID: M1627
Subject Headings: Bible. -- O.T. -- Ecclesiastes III, 21;
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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 1.7% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 1.2% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 88.0% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 10.0% -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) 4.6% -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: 0.633
Evenness: 0.754
Part Prominence
Old Testament (AKJV) 45.097
New Testament (Geneva) 3.227
Old Testament (Geneva) -2.792
New Testament (Tyndale) -2.879
New Testament (ODRV) -3.995
New Testament (AKJV) -5.285
Diversity: 0.888
Evenness: 0.896
Book Prominence
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 27.823
John (Geneva) 6.273
John (AKJV) 5.959
2 Timothy (Tyndale) 3.36
2 Peter (AKJV) 3.152
Ecclesiastes (Geneva) 3.077
Acts (Tyndale) 3.038
James (AKJV) 2.926
Galatians (AKJV) 2.9
Job (Geneva) 2.872
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 2.817
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 2.699
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.676
Genesis (AKJV) 2.673
Isaiah (Geneva) 2.666
Hebrews (AKJV) 2.544
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 2.382
Luke (AKJV) 2.374
Romans (AKJV) 1.729
Diversity: 0.91
Evenness: 0.912
Chapter Prominence
Ecclesiastes 3 (AKJV) 24.906
John 9 (Geneva) 6.208
John 9 (AKJV) 6.185
Genesis 33 (AKJV) 3.119
Isaiah 44 (Geneva) 3.104
Isaiah 22 (Geneva) 3.103
Acts 24 (Tyndale) 3.095
Hebrews 1 (AKJV) 3.093
Job 17 (Geneva) 3.092
2 Timothy 3 (Tyndale) 3.081
Ecclesiastes 3 (Geneva) 3.063
1 Corinthians 2 (Tyndale) 3.059
1 Corinthians 7 (ODRV) 3.049
2 Corinthians 1 (AKJV) 3.048
2 Corinthians 4 (ODRV) 3.048
2 Peter 2 (AKJV) 3.041
Luke 16 (AKJV) 3.037
Ecclesiastes 12 (AKJV) 3.034
James 3 (AKJV) 3.021
Romans 7 (AKJV) 3.019
Hebrews 13 (AKJV) 2.97
Galatians 5 (AKJV) 2.957
Hebrews 11 (AKJV) 2.952
Diversity: 0.91
Evenness: 0.912
Verse Prominence
Ecclesiastes 3.21 (AKJV) 24.993
John 9.4 (Geneva) 6.231
John 9.4 (AKJV) 6.231
Genesis 33.10 (AKJV) 3.124
Job 17.14 (Geneva) 3.123
Ecclesiastes 3.21 (Geneva) 3.123
James 3.11 (AKJV) 3.123
2 Timothy 3.16 (Tyndale) 3.121
1 Corinthians 2.10 (Tyndale) 3.121
Isaiah 22.13 (Geneva) 3.121
Hebrews 1.1 (AKJV) 3.121
Galatians 5.21 (AKJV) 3.121
2 Corinthians 1.18 (AKJV) 3.12
Hebrews 11.13 (AKJV) 3.118
Isaiah 44.18 (Geneva) 3.116
2 Corinthians 4.18 (ODRV) 3.116
2 Peter 2.22 (AKJV) 3.116
Luke 16.11 (AKJV) 3.115
Acts 24.25 (Tyndale) 3.11
Hebrews 13.17 (AKJV) 3.105
1 Corinthians 7.31 (ODRV) 3.104
Romans 7.23 (AKJV) 3.102
Ecclesiastes 12.7 (AKJV) 3.085
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: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Ecclesiastes 31.377
Hebrews 30.548
Isaiah 29.952
Diversity: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Isaiah 22 33.266
Ecclesiastes 3 33.244
Hebrews 11 32.887
Diversity: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Ecclesiastes 3.21 99.974
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase