Early English Printed Sermons


A discourse of the duty of shewing forth a good example in our lives deliver'd in a sermon at St. Mary le Bow Church, March the 28th, 1698 / by William Whitfeld ...

Whitfeld, William, 1658-1717
Publisher: Printed by Tho Warren for Thomas Bennet
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1698
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A65926 ESTC ID: R38611 STC ID: W2013
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Matthew V, 16; 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 1.1% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 0.3% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 88.4% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 8.0% -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) 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: 0.88
Evenness: 0.985
Part Prominence
New Testament (Tyndale) 9.978
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 6.597
Old Testament (ODRV) 3.631
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 1.448
Old Testament (Geneva) 0.065
New Testament (Geneva) -1.058
New Testament (ODRV) -1.138
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.046
New Testament (AKJV) -2.428
Diversity: 0.963
Evenness: 0.991
Book Prominence
Matthew (Tyndale) 5.164
Matthew (ODRV) 4.837
Romans (AKJV) 4.407
Mark (Tyndale) 2.97
Leviticus (Douay-Rheims) 2.91
Daniel (Geneva) 2.859
Philippians (Tyndale) 2.713
Ecclesiastes (Geneva) 2.63
1 Timothy (ODRV) 2.601
Genesis (ODRV) 2.578
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 2.447
Ephesians (Geneva) 2.323
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 2.317
John (Geneva) 2.255
John (Tyndale) 2.248
Luke (Geneva) 2.226
Proverbs (Geneva) 2.194
Romans (Tyndale) 2.138
John (ODRV) 2.07
Matthew (Geneva) 1.963
John (AKJV) 1.941
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.935
Luke (AKJV) 1.927
Psalms (ODRV) 1.915
Romans (ODRV) 1.875
Romans (Geneva) 1.665
Matthew (AKJV) 1.61
Psalms (Geneva) 1.31
Psalms (AKJV) 0.344
Diversity: 0.975
Evenness: 0.994
Chapter Prominence
Matthew 5 (Tyndale) 4.341
Romans 2 (AKJV) 4.274
Matthew 5 (ODRV) 4.228
Mark 5 (Tyndale) 2.217
Psalms 7 (ODRV) 2.214
Leviticus 13 (Douay-Rheims) 2.21
Ecclesiasticus 18 (Douay-Rheims) 2.209
Ecclesiasticus 39 (Douay-Rheims) 2.209
Ecclesiasticus 19 (Douay-Rheims) 2.204
Psalms 94 (Geneva) 2.195
Luke 5 (AKJV) 2.187
Philippians 2 (Tyndale) 2.186
Ecclesiastes 7 (Geneva) 2.186
Luke 5 (Geneva) 2.186
Proverbs 10 (Douay-Rheims) 2.185
Proverbs 10 (Geneva) 2.175
Luke 15 (AKJV) 2.174
Matthew 6 (Tyndale) 2.174
Psalms 94 (AKJV) 2.167
John 12 (ODRV) 2.164
Daniel 12 (Geneva) 2.164
Genesis 3 (ODRV) 2.162
John 5 (Geneva) 2.159
John 17 (AKJV) 2.152
Matthew 11 (AKJV) 2.147
Romans 2 (Tyndale) 2.143
Ephesians 6 (Geneva) 2.139
Matthew 13 (AKJV) 2.135
John 1 (Tyndale) 2.112
Romans 1 (AKJV) 2.11
Matthew 23 (AKJV) 2.109
1 Timothy 2 (ODRV) 2.105
Matthew 7 (ODRV) 2.102
1 Corinthians 11 (ODRV) 2.094
1 Corinthians 10 (ODRV) 2.082
Matthew 5 (Geneva) 2.077
Romans 13 (ODRV) 2.064
Matthew 6 (AKJV) 2.051
Matthew 5 (AKJV) 2.041
Romans 6 (Geneva) 2.035
Romans 12 (AKJV) 2.022
Romans 6 (AKJV) 2.019
Diversity: 0.977
Evenness: 0.994
Verse Prominence
Matthew 5.14 (ODRV) 4.163
Matthew 5.16 (Tyndale) 4.157
Romans 2.22 (AKJV) 4.157
Philippians 2.15 (Tyndale) 2.083
Leviticus 13.8 (Douay-Rheims) 2.083
Ecclesiasticus 18.8 (Douay-Rheims) 2.082
Matthew 6.22 (Tyndale) 2.082
Matthew 13.8 (AKJV) 2.082
Ecclesiasticus 39.27 (Douay-Rheims) 2.082
Psalms 7.7 (ODRV) 2.082
John 17.12 (AKJV) 2.082
Matthew 11.24 (AKJV) 2.082
Proverbs 10.28 (Geneva) 2.081
Ecclesiasticus 19.25 (Douay-Rheims) 2.081
Genesis 3.12 (ODRV) 2.081
Mark 5.9 (Tyndale) 2.08
Psalms 94.7 (Geneva) 2.08
Ecclesiastes 7.22 (Geneva) 2.08
Proverbs 10.28 (Douay-Rheims) 2.079
Matthew 5.14 (AKJV) 2.079
Romans 12.17 (AKJV) 2.079
1 Timothy 2.14 (ODRV) 2.079
Matthew 23.15 (AKJV) 2.079
Matthew 5.14 (Geneva) 2.078
Matthew 5.15 (AKJV) 2.078
John 5.35 (Geneva) 2.078
Psalms 94.7 (AKJV) 2.077
Ephesians 6.13 (Geneva) 2.076
Romans 1.32 (AKJV) 2.075
Romans 2.24 (AKJV) 2.075
Matthew 7.5 (ODRV) 2.075
1 Corinthians 11.1 (ODRV) 2.074
John 1.9 (Tyndale) 2.071
Romans 13.7 (ODRV) 2.07
Luke 15.7 (AKJV) 2.068
Luke 5.32 (AKJV) 2.068
Luke 5.32 (Geneva) 2.068
Romans 2.15 (Tyndale) 2.065
John 12.43 (ODRV) 2.064
Matthew 6.9 (AKJV) 2.064
Matthew 23.9 (AKJV) 2.06
1 Corinthians 10.31 (ODRV) 2.051
Romans 6.7 (Geneva) 2.049
Romans 6.7 (AKJV) 2.049
Daniel 12.3 (Geneva) 2.039
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: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
New Testament 51.805
Diversity: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Philippians 31.586
Romans 29.379
Matthew 29.153
Diversity: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Matthew 16 33.026
Philippians 2 33.005
Romans 2 33.0
Diversity: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Romans 2.20 49.985
Philippians 2.15 49.974
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase