Early English Printed Sermons


The bitter vvaters of Babylon, or The miserable estate of the citizens of Sion considered by the confusion of all things in this world.

Forsyth, James, fl. 1615-1619
Publisher: Printed by Edw Griffin for Ralph Mab and are to bee sold in Pauls Church yard at the signe of the Grey hound
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1615
Approximate Era: JamesI
TCP ID: A01077 ESTC ID: S121939 STC ID: 11191
Subject Headings: 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 9.9% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 3.8% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 85.2% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 1.8% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.4% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 11.7% -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) 2.7% -inf%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 1.4% -inf%
foreign_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.4% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 1.8% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent citation 1.4% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.4% -inf%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text 0.9% -inf%
foreign_latin_cited Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.9% -inf%
foreign_latin_cited_exact Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.2% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and italicized foreign text 0.9% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized_cited Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, an adjacent citation, and italicized foreign text 0.9% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, an adjacent matching citation, and italicized foreign text 0.2% -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: 0.893
Evenness: 0.987
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Vulgate) 7.408
Old Testament (AKJV) 6.136
Apocrypha (AKJV) 4.533
Old Testament (ODRV) 2.722
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 0.539
Old Testament (Geneva) -0.844
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.931
New Testament (Geneva) -1.967
New Testament (ODRV) -2.047
New Testament (AKJV) -3.337
Diversity: 0.976
Evenness: 0.996
Book Prominence
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 3.804
Bel and the Dragon (AKJV) 2.215
2 Kings (Vulgate) 2.209
Joel (Geneva) 2.145
Lamentations (ODRV) 2.115
Psalms (Vulgate) 2.057
2 Kings (AKJV) 1.99
1 Samuel (Geneva) 1.98
Jude (AKJV) 1.96
2 Esdras (AKJV) 1.958
Daniel (Geneva) 1.956
2 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 1.904
Exodus (ODRV) 1.889
Ecclesiastes (Douay-Rheims) 1.808
Deuteronomy (Douay-Rheims) 1.803
1 John (Tyndale) 1.774
Jeremiah (Geneva) 1.773
James (ODRV) 1.763
1 John (ODRV) 1.756
Genesis (ODRV) 1.676
Psalms (AKJV) 1.663
Job (Douay-Rheims) 1.645
Exodus (AKJV) 1.639
Genesis (Geneva) 1.611
Jeremiah (AKJV) 1.569
Job (Geneva) 1.523
Philippians (ODRV) 1.473
Luke (Tyndale) 1.447
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 1.347
Luke (Geneva) 1.323
Ephesians (AKJV) 1.271
Luke (ODRV) 1.23
Matthew (Tyndale) 1.137
Matthew (Geneva) 1.06
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.032
Psalms (ODRV) 1.012
Romans (ODRV) 0.972
Isaiah (AKJV) 0.94
Matthew (ODRV) 0.809
Romans (Geneva) 0.762
Matthew (AKJV) 0.708
Psalms (Geneva) 0.407
Romans (AKJV) 0.38
Diversity: 0.983
Evenness: 0.996
Chapter Prominence
Ecclesiasticus 31 (AKJV) 3.16
Psalms 137 (AKJV) 3.121
Luke 16 (ODRV) 3.096
2 Kings 14 (Vulgate) 1.587
Isaiah 16 (Douay-Rheims) 1.586
Psalms 50 (Vulgate) 1.585
Exodus 10 (ODRV) 1.584
Genesis 24 (Geneva) 1.583
Bel and the Dragon 1 (AKJV) 1.583
2 Kings 24 (AKJV) 1.582
Genesis 11 (ODRV) 1.582
2 Esdras 10 (AKJV) 1.582
Exodus 2 (AKJV) 1.582
Lamentations 1 (ODRV) 1.581
2 Kings 13 (Douay-Rheims) 1.581
Psalms 6 (ODRV) 1.58
Psalms 91 (ODRV) 1.58
1 Samuel 8 (Geneva) 1.579
Deuteronomy 26 (Douay-Rheims) 1.578
Job 30 (Geneva) 1.576
Joel 1 (Geneva) 1.575
Isaiah 42 (Douay-Rheims) 1.573
Job 27 (Geneva) 1.573
Job 1 (Douay-Rheims) 1.571
Genesis 6 (Geneva) 1.569
Isaiah 2 (AKJV) 1.566
Jeremiah 31 (Geneva) 1.566
Luke 15 (ODRV) 1.565
Daniel 4 (Geneva) 1.565
Matthew 9 (AKJV) 1.557
Psalms 105 (Geneva) 1.557
Psalms 45 (Geneva) 1.557
Psalms 120 (AKJV) 1.556
Matthew 9 (Tyndale) 1.556
Luke 13 (Tyndale) 1.556
Luke 22 (Tyndale) 1.544
Ecclesiastes 7 (Douay-Rheims) 1.535
Job 21 (Geneva) 1.534
1 John 2 (Tyndale) 1.528
Luke 10 (ODRV) 1.527
James 4 (ODRV) 1.524
Luke 22 (Geneva) 1.523
Luke 16 (Geneva) 1.52
Jeremiah 9 (AKJV) 1.517
Luke 16 (Tyndale) 1.516
Romans 12 (ODRV) 1.509
1 John 2 (ODRV) 1.509
Romans 15 (ODRV) 1.505
Romans 3 (Geneva) 1.501
Psalms 51 (AKJV) 1.49
Matthew 6 (Geneva) 1.488
1 Corinthians 2 (ODRV) 1.485
Romans 7 (AKJV) 1.482
Romans 11 (AKJV) 1.477
Psalms 119 (Geneva) 1.461
Philippians 3 (ODRV) 1.453
Matthew 6 (AKJV) 1.416
Jude 1 (AKJV) 1.405
Matthew 5 (ODRV) 1.371
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 1.235
Diversity: 0.983
Evenness: 0.995
Verse Prominence
Ecclesiasticus 31.3 (AKJV) 2.984
Luke 16.19 (ODRV) 2.972
Luke 16.28 (ODRV) 2.972
Psalms 137.1 (AKJV) 2.969
Genesis 24.11 (Geneva) 1.492
Genesis 6.22 (Geneva) 1.492
Psalms 50.2 (Vulgate) 1.492
Bel and the Dragon 1.23 (AKJV) 1.492
Genesis 11.4 (ODRV) 1.492
2 Esdras 10.7 (AKJV) 1.492
1 Samuel 8.3 (Geneva) 1.492
2 Kings 14.14 (Vulgate) 1.492
Psalms 91.7 (ODRV) 1.492
Matthew 9.9 (Tyndale) 1.492
Ecclesiastes 7.5 (Douay-Rheims) 1.492
Job 1.13 (Douay-Rheims) 1.492
Exodus 2.5 (AKJV) 1.492
Luke 10.12 (ODRV) 1.491
Matthew 9.15 (AKJV) 1.491
Isaiah 2.8 (AKJV) 1.491
Isaiah 16.6 (Douay-Rheims) 1.491
Luke 16.25 (Tyndale) 1.491
Luke 15.21 (ODRV) 1.491
Exodus 10.16 (ODRV) 1.491
Job 30.25 (Geneva) 1.491
Luke 22.43 (Geneva) 1.491
2 Kings 13.22 (Douay-Rheims) 1.491
2 Kings 24.10 (AKJV) 1.49
Jeremiah 31.15 (Geneva) 1.49
Luke 13.5 (Tyndale) 1.49
Joel 1.5 (Geneva) 1.49
Romans 11.13 (AKJV) 1.49
Psalms 6.7 (ODRV) 1.489
Isaiah 42.8 (Douay-Rheims) 1.489
Lamentations 1.4 (ODRV) 1.489
Psalms 105.45 (Geneva) 1.488
Job 27.8 (Geneva) 1.488
1 John 2.17 (ODRV) 1.488
Deuteronomy 26.9 (Douay-Rheims) 1.487
Psalms 119.136 (Geneva) 1.487
Luke 16.23 (Geneva) 1.485
James 4.9 (ODRV) 1.485
Luke 22.62 (Tyndale) 1.484
Job 21.13 (Geneva) 1.483
Matthew 5.5 (ODRV) 1.483
Romans 7.19 (AKJV) 1.482
Ecclesiastes 7.3 (Douay-Rheims) 1.482
Psalms 51.4 (AKJV) 1.482
Romans 3.24 (Geneva) 1.482
Luke 16.25 (Geneva) 1.481
1 John 2.15 (Tyndale) 1.481
1 Corinthians 2.14 (ODRV) 1.48
Romans 12.15 (ODRV) 1.479
Daniel 4.27 (Geneva) 1.478
Matthew 6.22 (Geneva) 1.477
Psalms 120.5 (AKJV) 1.477
Psalms 45.13 (Geneva) 1.477
Matthew 6.22 (AKJV) 1.474
Romans 15.4 (ODRV) 1.473
Jeremiah 9.1 (AKJV) 1.471
Ephesians 4.19 (AKJV) 1.467
Philippians 3.20 (ODRV) 1.432
Jude 1.25 (AKJV) 1.43
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: 0.958
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Joel 3.81
Apocalypse 3.77
Malachi 3.37
2 Kings 2.849
Daniel 2.831
1 John 2.732
1 Kings 2.69
2 Samuel 2.553
1 Samuel 2.384
Ecclesiastes 2.21
Exodus 2.051
Deuteronomy 2.036
Jeremiah 1.925
Job 1.924
2 Corinthians 1.864
Genesis 1.542
Hebrews 1.381
John 0.961
Luke 0.949
1 Corinthians 0.876
Isaiah 0.785
Romans 0.212
Matthew -0.013
Psalms -1.005
Diversity: 0.982
Evenness: 0.998
Chapter Prominence
Luke 16 3.191
Apocalypse 18 1.743
Isaiah 16 1.74
2 Kings 24 1.729
Genesis 16 1.728
Joel 1 1.726
2 Samuel 13 1.72
Genesis 24 1.719
Job 30 1.718
Jeremiah 25 1.717
Psalms 120 1.71
Exodus 9 1.709
Genesis 11 1.709
2 Samuel 14 1.706
Psalms 41 1.702
Job 4 1.701
Genesis 41 1.7
Genesis 14 1.7
Job 11 1.7
Deuteronomy 16 1.698
1 Kings 12 1.689
1 Samuel 8 1.685
Jeremiah 22 1.678
Isaiah 42 1.677
Psalms 137 1.675
Psalms 84 1.67
Job 21 1.668
Psalms 6 1.662
Psalms 144 1.657
Psalms 45 1.648
2 Samuel 12 1.643
Isaiah 6 1.643
Jeremiah 17 1.641
Luke 15 1.625
1 Samuel 15 1.621
Daniel 4 1.619
Isaiah 9 1.618
Isaiah 3 1.618
2 Corinthians 11 1.603
Matthew 4 1.595
Luke 18 1.593
Genesis 4 1.588
Job 1 1.586
Luke 13 1.581
Malachi 3 1.559
John 16 1.553
Psalms 51 1.55
1 John 2 1.544
Ecclesiastes 7 1.516
1 Corinthians 6 1.468
1 Corinthians 10 1.428
Romans 12 1.399
Luke 12 1.382
Psalms 119 1.358
Hebrews 11 1.308
Matthew 5 1.198
Diversity: 0.98
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Genesis 24.15 1.999
Jeremiah 22.9 1.999
Isaiah 9.9 1.999
Isaiah 16.6 1.999
Genesis 41.15 1.999
Genesis 16.9 1.999
Genesis 16.7 1.999
2 Kings 24.3 1.998
Jeremiah 25.11 1.998
Apocalypse 18.7 1.998
Hebrews 11.29 1.998
2 Samuel 13.2 1.998
Job 30.25 1.997
Psalms 84.3 1.997
Isaiah 3.26 1.996
1 Samuel 8.3 1.996
Ecclesiastes 7.4 1.995
Psalms 41.3 1.994
Isaiah 6.6 1.994
Job 1.19 1.994
Exodus 9.27 1.993
Joel 1.5 1.993
Psalms 144.14 1.992
Psalms 6.6 1.992
Luke 15.18 1.992
1 John 2.17 1.992
Jeremiah 17.11 1.991
1 Kings 12.28 1.99
Matthew 4.8 1.99
Matthew 4.9 1.99
2 Samuel 14.14 1.99
2 Samuel 12.13 1.989
2 Corinthians 11.23 1.988
Job 21.13 1.988
Romans 12.15 1.986
Psalms 120.5 1.986
Psalms 137.1 1.985
Malachi 3.8 1.985
Matthew 5.4 1.985
Job 4.19 1.984
Isaiah 42.8 1.982
Luke 13.3 1.982
Psalms 119.136 1.981
Psalms 51.4 1.98
Daniel 4.27 1.98
John 16.33 1.98
1 Corinthians 10.12 1.976
Luke 12.19 1.973
1 Corinthians 10.11 1.972
Luke 12.20 1.967
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase