Early English Printed Sermons


Iacobs ladder, or The high way to heauen Being the last sermon that Master Henry Smith made. And now published, not (as many forged things haue beene in his name) to deceiue the Christian reader, but to instruct and prepare him with oyle in his lampe, ioyfully to meete the Lord Iesus in his second comming.

Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591
Publisher: Printed by the widdow Orwin for Thomas Man
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1595
Approximate Era: Elizabeth
TCP ID: A12361 ESTC ID: S122459 STC ID: 22677
Subject Headings: Sermons, English -- 16th 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 3.9% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 2.5% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 73.2% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.2% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 9.4% -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) 5.5% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized 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: 0.903
Evenness: 0.988
Part Prominence
New Testament (Wycliffe) 6.712
New Testament (Tyndale) 6.645
Apocrypha (AKJV) 3.776
New Testament (Vulgate) 3.525
Old Testament (ODRV) 1.964
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -0.219
Old Testament (Geneva) -1.601
New Testament (Geneva) -2.725
New Testament (ODRV) -2.804
Old Testament (AKJV) -3.713
New Testament (AKJV) -4.094
Diversity: 0.982
Evenness: 0.987
Book Prominence
Genesis (AKJV) 3.211
Matthew (Geneva) 2.948
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 1.867
John (Tyndale) 1.862
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.55
Haggai (Geneva) 1.345
Joshua (Geneva) 1.255
2 Thessalonians (Tyndale) 1.251
Joshua (AKJV) 1.227
Matthew (AKJV) 1.225
1 John (Vulgate) 1.224
2 Kings (Geneva) 1.202
John (Wycliffe) 1.194
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.172
2 Kings (AKJV) 1.137
Romans (Vulgate) 1.132
Ezekiel (Geneva) 1.091
1 Thessalonians (ODRV) 1.077
2 Timothy (Geneva) 1.028
Exodus (Geneva) 0.93
Hebrews (Tyndale) 0.919
James (ODRV) 0.911
1 John (Geneva) 0.909
1 John (ODRV) 0.903
Ephesians (Tyndale) 0.886
1 Peter (Tyndale) 0.881
Revelation (Geneva) 0.858
1 Timothy (ODRV) 0.846
2 Timothy (AKJV) 0.838
Revelation (AKJV) 0.835
Genesis (ODRV) 0.823
1 Peter (Geneva) 0.788
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 0.729
James (AKJV) 0.724
Hebrews (ODRV) 0.658
Hebrews (Geneva) 0.628
Philippians (ODRV) 0.62
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 0.615
Ephesians (Geneva) 0.568
Acts (AKJV) 0.536
John (Geneva) 0.5
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 0.494
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.475
Luke (Geneva) 0.471
Isaiah (Geneva) 0.464
Proverbs (Geneva) 0.439
Romans (Tyndale) 0.383
Luke (ODRV) 0.378
Job (AKJV) 0.376
Hebrews (AKJV) 0.342
John (ODRV) 0.314
Matthew (Tyndale) 0.284
John (AKJV) 0.186
Luke (AKJV) 0.172
Psalms (ODRV) 0.159
Romans (ODRV) 0.12
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 0.098
Isaiah (AKJV) 0.087
Proverbs (AKJV) -0.033
Matthew (ODRV) -0.043
Romans (Geneva) -0.09
Psalms (Geneva) -0.445
Romans (AKJV) -0.473
Psalms (AKJV) -1.411
Diversity: 0.99
Evenness: 0.991
Chapter Prominence
Genesis 29 (AKJV) 2.4
Matthew 3 (Geneva) 2.376
1 Corinthians 9 (Tyndale) 1.57
1 Corinthians 9 (ODRV) 1.567
John 14 (Tyndale) 1.556
1 Corinthians 9 (Geneva) 1.554
Psalms 73 (Geneva) 1.545
Matthew 3 (AKJV) 1.544
1 Corinthians 9 (AKJV) 1.525
John 3 (Tyndale) 1.478
John 21 (Wycliffe) 0.806
Ecclesiasticus 32 (AKJV) 0.801
Genesis 32 (ODRV) 0.8
Psalms 135 (ODRV) 0.8
Isaiah 35 (Douay-Rheims) 0.798
Haggai 1 (Geneva) 0.797
2 Kings 5 (Geneva) 0.797
Exodus 16 (Geneva) 0.796
2 Kings 6 (Geneva) 0.796
2 Kings 6 (AKJV) 0.793
Joshua 1 (Geneva) 0.792
Joshua 7 (AKJV) 0.792
John 21 (Geneva) 0.79
Isaiah 26 (Douay-Rheims) 0.79
John 21 (Tyndale) 0.789
Hebrews 8 (AKJV) 0.788
2 Thessalonians 3 (Tyndale) 0.787
Job 15 (AKJV) 0.787
Psalms 130 (Geneva) 0.786
2 Corinthians 12 (ODRV) 0.786
Romans 6 (Vulgate) 0.785
Proverbs 26 (Geneva) 0.784
Isaiah 30 (Geneva) 0.784
Luke 3 (ODRV) 0.784
John 21 (ODRV) 0.784
Proverbs 4 (Geneva) 0.78
Luke 14 (AKJV) 0.78
Revelation 2 (Geneva) 0.779
Luke 19 (Geneva) 0.777
Proverbs 12 (Geneva) 0.776
1 John 2 (Vulgate) 0.774
Ezekiel 18 (Geneva) 0.773
Hebrews 6 (ODRV) 0.773
John 20 (AKJV) 0.769
Hebrews 6 (Tyndale) 0.768
Revelation 21 (Geneva) 0.768
Acts 26 (AKJV) 0.766
Ephesians 6 (Tyndale) 0.766
2 Corinthians 13 (AKJV) 0.765
John 9 (ODRV) 0.764
Luke 11 (ODRV) 0.762
Revelation 21 (AKJV) 0.761
Psalms 78 (Geneva) 0.759
John 15 (ODRV) 0.759
Psalms 62 (AKJV) 0.758
Isaiah 30 (AKJV) 0.757
John 8 (Geneva) 0.755
Psalms 25 (AKJV) 0.755
2 Corinthians 3 (ODRV) 0.753
Matthew 24 (Tyndale) 0.752
1 Timothy 4 (ODRV) 0.751
2 Corinthians 6 (AKJV) 0.75
John 7 (ODRV) 0.749
Proverbs 8 (Geneva) 0.747
John 5 (Geneva) 0.744
Genesis 1 (ODRV) 0.743
1 Corinthians 2 (Tyndale) 0.74
1 John 4 (ODRV) 0.736
John 14 (AKJV) 0.734
1 Corinthians 13 (Geneva) 0.731
John 7 (AKJV) 0.729
1 Peter 1 (Tyndale) 0.726
Matthew 16 (AKJV) 0.726
Matthew 11 (Geneva) 0.725
Matthew 22 (Tyndale) 0.724
2 Timothy 4 (AKJV) 0.724
Acts 24 (AKJV) 0.723
Proverbs 4 (AKJV) 0.722
John 5 (AKJV) 0.719
Romans 1 (ODRV) 0.715
2 Timothy 4 (Geneva) 0.713
Matthew 25 (AKJV) 0.706
Hebrews 13 (Geneva) 0.704
James 2 (ODRV) 0.703
Matthew 5 (Tyndale) 0.703
Matthew 25 (Geneva) 0.702
Matthew 6 (ODRV) 0.702
Hebrews 10 (Geneva) 0.701
John 3 (Geneva) 0.698
1 Peter 1 (Geneva) 0.698
Hebrews 12 (Geneva) 0.696
Romans 6 (ODRV) 0.695
1 Thessalonians 5 (ODRV) 0.692
Ephesians 5 (Geneva) 0.688
1 John 3 (Geneva) 0.687
Psalms 73 (AKJV) 0.679
Hebrews 12 (AKJV) 0.678
Romans 8 (Tyndale) 0.672
John 6 (ODRV) 0.663
Matthew 5 (Geneva) 0.662
James 1 (AKJV) 0.662
Romans 5 (AKJV) 0.66
Philippians 1 (ODRV) 0.651
2 Corinthians 5 (AKJV) 0.647
Romans 13 (Tyndale) 0.641
Hebrews 10 (AKJV) 0.629
Romans 8 (ODRV) 0.62
Romans 8 (Geneva) 0.619
Romans 12 (AKJV) 0.606
1 Corinthians 15 (Geneva) 0.545
1 Corinthians 15 (ODRV) 0.49
Romans 8 (AKJV) 0.475
Diversity: 0.991
Evenness: 0.992
Verse Prominence
Genesis 29.20 (AKJV) 2.302
Matthew 3.2 (Geneva) 2.296
1 Corinthians 9.24 (Tyndale) 1.536
1 Corinthians 9.24 (ODRV) 1.53
Matthew 3.2 (AKJV) 1.527
1 Corinthians 9.24 (Geneva) 1.527
1 Corinthians 9.24 (AKJV) 1.527
John 14.6 (Tyndale) 1.521
Psalms 73.25 (Geneva) 1.519
John 3.13 (Tyndale) 1.483
Haggai 1.2 (Geneva) 0.769
John 9.38 (ODRV) 0.769
John 21.16 (Wycliffe) 0.769
Exodus 16.21 (Geneva) 0.769
Matthew 25.20 (Geneva) 0.769
Matthew 16.8 (AKJV) 0.769
John 21.17 (Tyndale) 0.769
John 20.4 (AKJV) 0.769
Genesis 32.24 (ODRV) 0.769
Psalms 135.5 (ODRV) 0.769
Hebrews 8.12 (AKJV) 0.768
Ecclesiasticus 32.11 (AKJV) 0.768
Psalms 78.34 (Geneva) 0.768
John 7.34 (ODRV) 0.768
Genesis 1.4 (ODRV) 0.768
Luke 3.4 (ODRV) 0.768
Matthew 25.12 (Geneva) 0.768
2 Kings 5.12 (Geneva) 0.768
Luke 14.30 (AKJV) 0.768
2 Kings 6.16 (Geneva) 0.768
2 Kings 6.16 (AKJV) 0.768
Hebrews 6.17 (Tyndale) 0.768
Job 15.32 (AKJV) 0.768
Isaiah 30.11 (Geneva) 0.767
Luke 11.2 (ODRV) 0.767
Proverbs 4.7 (Geneva) 0.767
Luke 19.42 (Geneva) 0.767
James 1.19 (AKJV) 0.767
Joshua 1.5 (Geneva) 0.767
Joshua 7.8 (AKJV) 0.767
Ephesians 6.12 (Tyndale) 0.767
John 5.24 (AKJV) 0.767
Hebrews 6.18 (ODRV) 0.767
2 Corinthians 12.9 (ODRV) 0.767
Isaiah 35.3 (Douay-Rheims) 0.767
Ezekiel 18.32 (Geneva) 0.766
Acts 24.25 (AKJV) 0.766
John 5.4 (Geneva) 0.766
Proverbs 12.28 (Geneva) 0.766
2 Thessalonians 3.13 (Tyndale) 0.766
2 Corinthians 3.6 (ODRV) 0.766
Romans 1.19 (ODRV) 0.765
John 8.46 (Geneva) 0.765
Proverbs 8.17 (Geneva) 0.765
John 21.17 (Geneva) 0.765
Matthew 25.3 (AKJV) 0.765
Matthew 24.13 (Tyndale) 0.765
Romans 6.12 (Vulgate) 0.765
Romans 8.31 (Tyndale) 0.764
Psalms 25.7 (AKJV) 0.764
James 2.19 (ODRV) 0.764
John 7.6 (AKJV) 0.764
John 15.8 (ODRV) 0.764
Ephesians 5.15 (Geneva) 0.764
Hebrews 12.11 (Geneva) 0.764
Revelation 2.10 (Geneva) 0.764
Isaiah 26.7 (Douay-Rheims) 0.763
1 Peter 1.16 (Tyndale) 0.763
Acts 26.28 (AKJV) 0.763
John 6.47 (ODRV) 0.763
Hebrews 10.17 (Geneva) 0.763
Hebrews 10.17 (AKJV) 0.763
Revelation 21.2 (AKJV) 0.763
Hebrews 12.12 (AKJV) 0.763
Proverbs 26.13 (Geneva) 0.762
2 Corinthians 6.2 (AKJV) 0.762
John 7.6 (ODRV) 0.762
John 21.16 (ODRV) 0.762
Romans 13.12 (Tyndale) 0.762
1 Thessalonians 5.17 (ODRV) 0.762
Revelation 21.2 (Geneva) 0.762
Proverbs 4.27 (AKJV) 0.761
Isaiah 30.21 (AKJV) 0.761
Romans 12.21 (AKJV) 0.761
1 John 4.2 (ODRV) 0.761
2 Timothy 4.6 (AKJV) 0.761
1 Corinthians 15.57 (ODRV) 0.76
John 14.6 (AKJV) 0.759
Matthew 5.20 (Geneva) 0.759
1 John 2.16 (Vulgate) 0.759
Psalms 130.4 (Geneva) 0.759
Hebrews 13.6 (Geneva) 0.758
Romans 8.38 (Geneva) 0.758
Romans 6.5 (ODRV) 0.758
1 Timothy 4.8 (ODRV) 0.757
Matthew 6.13 (ODRV) 0.757
2 Corinthians 13.5 (AKJV) 0.756
Romans 5.20 (AKJV) 0.756
Matthew 5.8 (Tyndale) 0.755
Psalms 62.9 (AKJV) 0.753
Romans 8.39 (AKJV) 0.753
1 John 3.16 (Geneva) 0.752
1 Corinthians 2.9 (Tyndale) 0.752
Romans 8.1 (ODRV) 0.75
2 Corinthians 5.21 (AKJV) 0.749
2 Timothy 4.8 (Geneva) 0.749
Matthew 11.12 (Geneva) 0.748
1 Corinthians 15.26 (Geneva) 0.744
1 Corinthians 13.12 (Geneva) 0.743
2 Timothy 4.8 (AKJV) 0.743
Romans 8.37 (AKJV) 0.74
Matthew 22.37 (Tyndale) 0.739
Philippians 1.29 (ODRV) 0.735
John 3.13 (Geneva) 0.734
1 Corinthians 15.56 (ODRV) 0.729
1 Peter 1.4 (Geneva) 0.728
1 Corinthians 15.55 (Geneva) 0.727
Psalms 73.25 (AKJV) 0.724
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: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament 2.666
New Testament 1.805
Diversity: 0.933
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Haggai 6.404
Judges 5.569
2 Kings 5.349
2 Timothy 5.224
Exodus 4.551
Deuteronomy 4.536
2 Corinthians 4.364
Genesis 4.042
Proverbs 3.619
Acts 3.463
John 3.461
Luke 3.449
1 Corinthians 3.376
Matthew 2.487
Psalms 1.495
Diversity: 0.958
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Haggai 1 4.113
Judges 9 4.107
2 Kings 2 4.095
Deuteronomy 6 4.086
Exodus 3 4.079
Psalms 25 4.073
John 21 4.056
Psalms 90 4.047
Acts 24 4.046
Matthew 8 4.012
Matthew 4 4.007
1 Corinthians 9 4.003
Genesis 1 4.003
Matthew 3 3.992
Proverbs 1 3.985
Matthew 19 3.966
Proverbs 8 3.965
Luke 19 3.956
2 Corinthians 6 3.944
John 5 3.906
Matthew 10 3.871
2 Timothy 3 3.87
Matthew 25 3.797
Matthew 5 3.61
Diversity: 0.952
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
John 5.2 4.759
Judges 9.9 4.759
Luke 19.13 4.758
Genesis 1.14 4.756
Matthew 19.14 4.756
2 Kings 2.23 4.755
Proverbs 8.17 4.754
Proverbs 1.28 4.753
Matthew 8.29 4.752
Matthew 25.15 4.75
Matthew 3.2 4.749
Matthew 4.10 4.749
Deuteronomy 6.7 4.749
Haggai 1.2 4.747
Psalms 25.7 4.747
1 Corinthians 9.24 4.746
Acts 24.25 4.742
Psalms 90.12 4.74
John 21.15 4.74
2 Corinthians 6.2 4.734
2 Timothy 3.15 4.729
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase