Early English Printed Sermons


Where is the wise? Where is the Scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdome of this world? Cor. I, 20.

Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679
Publisher: Printed for Robert Wilson
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1660
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A54078 ESTC ID: R33050 STC ID: P1221
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Corinthians, 1st, I, 20; Christian life -- 17th century; Sermons, English -- 17th century; Wisdom -- Religious aspects;
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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 6.7% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 2.8% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 82.8% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 8.9% -inf%
sim_score Average cosine similarity score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.7% -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) 2.2% -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: 0.828
Evenness: 0.926
Part Prominence
New Testament (AKJV) 18.342
New Testament (ODRV) 4.247
Old Testament (AKJV) 3.339
Old Testament (ODRV) 1.323
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -0.86
Old Testament (Geneva) -2.242
New Testament (Tyndale) -2.329
New Testament (Geneva) -3.366
Diversity: 0.941
Evenness: 0.967
Book Prominence
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 13.247
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 6.218
Psalms (AKJV) 4.626
2 Timothy (Geneva) 3.362
Jeremiah (Douay-Rheims) 3.211
2 Timothy (AKJV) 3.172
Revelation (AKJV) 3.169
Revelation (ODRV) 3.151
Job (Geneva) 3.004
John (Geneva) 2.834
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 2.831
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 2.828
John (Tyndale) 2.826
Proverbs (Geneva) 2.773
Luke (ODRV) 2.712
John (ODRV) 2.648
Matthew (Tyndale) 2.618
Psalms (ODRV) 2.493
Romans (ODRV) 2.453
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 2.432
Matthew (ODRV) 2.29
Matthew (AKJV) 2.189
Diversity: 0.955
Evenness: 0.974
Chapter Prominence
1 Corinthians 1 (AKJV) 11.975
Psalms 36 (AKJV) 6.028
1 Corinthians 1 (ODRV) 5.992
Isaiah 42 (Douay-Rheims) 3.016
John 2 (Geneva) 3.012
Proverbs 30 (Geneva) 3.012
John 9 (Tyndale) 3.012
Jeremiah 2 (Douay-Rheims) 3.011
Revelation 9 (ODRV) 3.009
Job 10 (Geneva) 3.008
John 21 (ODRV) 3.008
Revelation 17 (AKJV) 3.004
Revelation 12 (ODRV) 3.0
Psalms 94 (ODRV) 2.998
Luke 11 (ODRV) 2.986
Matthew 7 (Tyndale) 2.966
1 Corinthians 2 (Tyndale) 2.964
2 Timothy 3 (Geneva) 2.962
1 Corinthians 3 (Geneva) 2.957
Matthew 11 (AKJV) 2.955
Matthew 12 (ODRV) 2.953
1 Corinthians 1 (Geneva) 2.938
1 Corinthians 2 (ODRV) 2.928
John 1 (Tyndale) 2.92
Romans 3 (ODRV) 2.906
1 Corinthians 3 (AKJV) 2.898
John 3 (Tyndale) 2.895
2 Timothy 3 (AKJV) 2.869
Diversity: 0.958
Evenness: 0.975
Verse Prominence
1 Corinthians 1.20 (AKJV) 11.419
Psalms 36.10 (AKJV) 5.713
1 Corinthians 1.20 (ODRV) 5.707
John 21.4 (ODRV) 2.857
Proverbs 30.3 (Geneva) 2.857
Isaiah 42.24 (Douay-Rheims) 2.856
Psalms 94.10 (ODRV) 2.856
Jeremiah 2.8 (Douay-Rheims) 2.856
Matthew 7.8 (Tyndale) 2.856
John 9.33 (Tyndale) 2.856
Matthew 12.8 (ODRV) 2.856
Revelation 12.14 (ODRV) 2.856
Luke 11.20 (ODRV) 2.855
Matthew 11.13 (AKJV) 2.855
Revelation 17.2 (AKJV) 2.855
John 2.24 (Geneva) 2.854
Job 10.4 (Geneva) 2.853
2 Timothy 3.8 (Geneva) 2.853
John 1.4 (Tyndale) 2.853
1 Corinthians 1.20 (Geneva) 2.852
1 Corinthians 3.19 (Geneva) 2.851
Revelation 9.6 (ODRV) 2.85
1 Corinthians 3.18 (AKJV) 2.849
1 Corinthians 2.6 (ODRV) 2.848
1 Corinthians 2.14 (Tyndale) 2.847
Romans 3.17 (ODRV) 2.847
1 Corinthians 1.21 (ODRV) 2.847
1 Corinthians 3.19 (AKJV) 2.842
2 Timothy 3.5 (AKJV) 2.81
John 3.13 (Tyndale) 2.802
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: 0.95
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Habakkuk 4.524
Micah 4.216
Judges 3.902
Hosea 3.803
2 Peter 3.716
2 Kings 3.682
Numbers 3.571
1 John 3.566
2 Timothy 3.557
Ezekiel 3.396
Exodus 2.885
Revelation 2.874
Deuteronomy 2.869
Jeremiah 2.758
2 Corinthians 2.698
Hebrews 2.214
John 1.794
Luke 1.782
1 Corinthians 1.71
Isaiah 1.618
Diversity: 0.971
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Isaiah 47 2.912
Ezekiel 28 2.912
Ezekiel 13 2.906
Exodus 5 2.904
Hosea 9 2.904
Exodus 8 2.9
Exodus 1 2.896
Luke 5 2.895
Jeremiah 29 2.894
2 Kings 9 2.886
Deuteronomy 30 2.876
Isaiah 33 2.865
Revelation 17 2.865
Habakkuk 2 2.845
Jeremiah 2 2.836
Luke 17 2.826
Jeremiah 23 2.825
John 2 2.825
Revelation 12 2.816
Micah 6 2.815
1 John 5 2.794
2 Corinthians 11 2.79
Judges 5 2.788
Numbers 16 2.788
Jeremiah 5 2.787
2 Timothy 4 2.734
Hebrews 6 2.712
1 Corinthians 2 2.699
John 6 2.694
2 Peter 2 2.685
2 Timothy 3 2.644
Isaiah 1 2.626
John 3 2.608
1 Corinthians 1 2.603
Diversity: 0.976
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Exodus 5.9 2.38
Jeremiah 29.26 2.38
Jeremiah 23.26 2.38
Jeremiah 23.27 2.38
Luke 5.16 2.38
Isaiah 33.18 2.379
2 Kings 9.11 2.379
Numbers 16.18 2.379
Deuteronomy 30.14 2.379
Exodus 8.26 2.378
Exodus 5.8 2.378
Isaiah 47.10 2.378
Ezekiel 28.3 2.378
Jeremiah 2.8 2.378
John 6.14 2.378
Exodus 1.10 2.377
Judges 5.28 2.377
John 6.15 2.377
Habakkuk 2.13 2.377
Revelation 17.2 2.377
Hosea 9.7 2.376
Ezekiel 13.3 2.374
1 John 5.20 2.374
John 2.24 2.373
Luke 17.21 2.372
2 Corinthians 11.13 2.372
Revelation 12.4 2.371
John 3.2 2.37
Jeremiah 5.31 2.369
Exodus 5.2 2.368
1 Corinthians 1.22 2.368
Isaiah 1.11 2.368
2 Timothy 4.10 2.365
1 Corinthians 1.20 2.364
Hebrews 6.5 2.36
John 3.3 2.354
Hebrews 6.4 2.354
Hebrews 6.6 2.354
2 Peter 2.1 2.349
2 Timothy 3.5 2.346
1 Corinthians 2.14 2.337
Micah 6.8 2.331
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase