Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached at the second general meeting of the gentlemen and others in and near London who were born within the County of York in the Church of St. Mary-le-Bow, February 17, 1679/80 / by John Sharpe ...

Sharp, John, 1645-1714
Publisher: Printed for Walter Kettilby
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1680
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A59557 ESTC ID: R18978 STC ID: S2985
Subject Headings: Bible. -- O.T. -- Ecclesiastes III, 10; Sermons, English;
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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 4.4% -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 85.6% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 11.4% -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 0.8% -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) 3.9% -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: 0.864
Evenness: 0.983
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Geneva) 12.288
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 7.708
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 2.559
New Testament (Tyndale) 1.09
New Testament (Geneva) 0.053
New Testament (ODRV) -0.027
Old Testament (AKJV) -0.935
New Testament (AKJV) -1.317
Diversity: 0.949
Evenness: 0.99
Book Prominence
Ecclesiastes (Geneva) 8.201
Deuteronomy (AKJV) 8.128
Philippians (Tyndale) 3.936
Ecclesiastes (Douay-Rheims) 3.934
Colossians (ODRV) 3.934
Philippians (Geneva) 3.93
2 Peter (AKJV) 3.928
Colossians (AKJV) 3.841
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 3.67
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 3.599
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 3.593
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 3.475
John (Tyndale) 3.47
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 3.453
Proverbs (Geneva) 3.417
Ephesians (AKJV) 3.397
Romans (Tyndale) 3.361
Matthew (ODRV) 2.935
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.78
Psalms (Geneva) 2.533
Psalms (AKJV) 1.567
Diversity: 0.956
Evenness: 0.959
Chapter Prominence
Ecclesiastes 3 (AKJV) 14.192
Ecclesiastes 6 (Douay-Rheims) 4.756
Deuteronomy 16 (AKJV) 4.746
Ecclesiastes 3 (Geneva) 4.7
Ecclesiastes 6 (Geneva) 2.372
Ecclesiastes 6 (AKJV) 2.361
Ecclesiasticus 31 (Douay-Rheims) 2.348
Ecclesiastes 1 (Douay-Rheims) 2.342
Ecclesiastes 5 (AKJV) 2.341
Ecclesiastes 2 (AKJV) 2.34
Philippians 4 (Geneva) 2.338
Proverbs 10 (Geneva) 2.334
Psalms 34 (Geneva) 2.331
2 Corinthians 10 (AKJV) 2.329
Ecclesiastes 1 (AKJV) 2.325
Psalms 10 (AKJV) 2.318
2 Corinthians 6 (ODRV) 2.312
Ecclesiastes 9 (AKJV) 2.304
2 Corinthians 1 (AKJV) 2.304
Psalms 37 (Geneva) 2.297
1 Corinthians 10 (Tyndale) 2.295
Ephesians 6 (AKJV) 2.291
1 Corinthians 12 (Tyndale) 2.287
1 Corinthians 12 (AKJV) 2.261
Philippians 3 (Tyndale) 2.26
John 3 (Tyndale) 2.246
2 Peter 1 (AKJV) 2.244
Ephesians 2 (AKJV) 2.243
Colossians 3 (AKJV) 2.242
Colossians 3 (ODRV) 2.241
2 Corinthians 4 (AKJV) 2.24
Psalms 37 (AKJV) 2.226
Romans 13 (Tyndale) 2.215
Matthew 5 (ODRV) 2.164
Diversity: 0.965
Evenness: 0.965
Verse Prominence
Ecclesiastes 3.12 (AKJV) 11.535
Ecclesiastes 3.12 (Geneva) 3.845
Deuteronomy 16.14 (AKJV) 3.845
Ecclesiastes 6.2 (Douay-Rheims) 3.843
Ecclesiastes 2.24 (AKJV) 3.842
Ecclesiastes 3.13 (AKJV) 3.841
Ecclesiastes 2.2 (AKJV) 3.839
Ecclesiastes 1.13 (Douay-Rheims) 1.922
1 Corinthians 12.22 (Tyndale) 1.922
Ecclesiastes 5.18 (AKJV) 1.922
Ecclesiastes 6.2 (Geneva) 1.922
2 Corinthians 10.14 (AKJV) 1.922
Psalms 37.3 (AKJV) 1.921
Philippians 4.4 (Geneva) 1.921
Psalms 10.6 (AKJV) 1.92
Ecclesiastes 9.7 (AKJV) 1.92
Ecclesiastes 2.11 (AKJV) 1.92
Ecclesiastes 2.26 (AKJV) 1.92
Ecclesiastes 3.11 (Geneva) 1.919
Ecclesiastes 6.1 (AKJV) 1.919
Colossians 3.20 (ODRV) 1.918
Psalms 34.3 (Geneva) 1.918
Ecclesiasticus 31.37 (Douay-Rheims) 1.917
Colossians 3.22 (AKJV) 1.917
Ecclesiastes 3.9 (AKJV) 1.916
Psalms 37.25 (Geneva) 1.916
Philippians 3.17 (Tyndale) 1.916
2 Corinthians 6.3 (ODRV) 1.916
Ecclesiastes 1.18 (AKJV) 1.913
Ephesians 6.4 (AKJV) 1.913
1 Corinthians 12.21 (AKJV) 1.911
Romans 13.14 (Tyndale) 1.907
2 Corinthians 1.12 (AKJV) 1.907
1 Corinthians 12.14 (Tyndale) 1.906
Proverbs 10.7 (Geneva) 1.905
2 Peter 1.7 (AKJV) 1.897
1 Corinthians 10.24 (Tyndale) 1.896
Ephesians 2.8 (AKJV) 1.892
Matthew 5.17 (ODRV) 1.88
2 Corinthians 4.17 (AKJV) 1.88
John 3.13 (Tyndale) 1.868
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: 0.923
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
1 Thessalonians 6.615
1 John 6.258
Philippians 5.945
1 Timothy 5.855
Ecclesiastes 5.736
Exodus 5.577
Deuteronomy 5.562
2 Corinthians 5.39
Proverbs 4.645
John 4.486
1 Corinthians 4.402
Matthew 3.512
Psalms 2.521
Diversity: 0.944
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Deuteronomy 16 5.499
Exodus 23 5.475
Ecclesiastes 3 5.466
Ecclesiastes 1 5.46
Proverbs 10 5.387
1 John 4 5.385
2 Corinthians 1 5.383
Psalms 37 5.364
1 Corinthians 12 5.354
1 Thessalonians 5 5.352
John 13 5.351
Philippians 4 5.327
2 Corinthians 4 5.326
1 Timothy 6 5.297
1 John 3 5.23
1 Corinthians 10 5.23
Matthew 25 5.186
Matthew 5 4.999
Diversity: 0.947
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Ecclesiastes 3.10 5.261
Ecclesiastes 1.13 5.259
Deuteronomy 16.14 5.258
Exodus 23.15 5.258
Psalms 37.3 5.257
1 Thessalonians 5.16 5.257
1 John 3.16 5.251
1 Corinthians 10.24 5.251
1 John 4.8 5.25
Matthew 5.45 5.246
John 13.34 5.245
Philippians 4.4 5.245
1 Timothy 6.18 5.235
Matthew 5.16 5.224
2 Corinthians 1.12 5.222
John 13.35 5.211
Matthew 5.44 5.207
2 Corinthians 4.17 5.206
Proverbs 10.7 5.202
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase