Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached at the assises for the county of Surrey, held in the burrough of Southwark, March 23, 1681/2 by Richard Meggott ...

Meggott, Richard, d. 1692
Publisher: Printed by A Grover for Thomas Rowe Jun
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1682
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A50547 ESTC ID: R16983 STC ID: M1626
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- James I, 25;
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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 3.4% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 3.4% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 86.0% 100.0%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.4% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 11.0% -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) 2.1% -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 (ODRV) 15.853
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 2.559
Old Testament (Geneva) 1.177
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: 0.957
Evenness: 0.995
Book Prominence
Psalms (ODRV) 6.79
Mark (ODRV) 3.812
Galatians (Tyndale) 3.585
1 Samuel (AKJV) 3.581
1 John (Tyndale) 3.551
Jeremiah (Douay-Rheims) 3.507
1 John (AKJV) 3.4
Galatians (AKJV) 3.328
Acts (ODRV) 3.312
Job (Geneva) 3.301
Hebrews (ODRV) 3.288
Acts (AKJV) 3.166
Luke (Geneva) 3.101
Romans (Tyndale) 3.013
Luke (ODRV) 3.008
John (ODRV) 2.945
John (AKJV) 2.816
Romans (ODRV) 2.75
Proverbs (AKJV) 2.597
Romans (Geneva) 2.54
Matthew (AKJV) 2.485
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.432
Romans (AKJV) 2.157
Psalms (AKJV) 1.219
Diversity: 0.971
Evenness: 0.997
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 71 (ODRV) 5.534
1 Samuel 7 (AKJV) 2.767
Jeremiah 8 (Douay-Rheims) 2.767
Job 39 (Geneva) 2.766
Luke 8 (Geneva) 2.762
1 John 1 (Tyndale) 2.762
Acts 15 (ODRV) 2.758
John 21 (ODRV) 2.756
Psalms 148 (AKJV) 2.754
Mark 16 (ODRV) 2.752
Luke 13 (ODRV) 2.748
1 John 1 (AKJV) 2.723
Psalms 49 (AKJV) 2.721
Romans 7 (Geneva) 2.718
Galatians 3 (Tyndale) 2.714
Matthew 11 (AKJV) 2.703
Psalms 19 (AKJV) 2.703
Romans 2 (Tyndale) 2.698
Acts 24 (AKJV) 2.695
Proverbs 4 (AKJV) 2.694
Romans 3 (Geneva) 2.692
Hebrews 4 (ODRV) 2.69
Romans 14 (ODRV) 2.683
John 1 (AKJV) 2.677
Psalms 2 (AKJV) 2.672
Psalms 44 (AKJV) 2.668
1 Corinthians 6 (AKJV) 2.662
Romans 3 (ODRV) 2.654
Romans 3 (AKJV) 2.648
Romans 2 (Geneva) 2.616
Galatians 5 (AKJV) 2.61
Romans 2 (AKJV) 2.608
Romans 8 (ODRV) 2.592
Romans 13 (Geneva) 2.453
Romans 13 (AKJV) 2.417
Diversity: 0.972
Evenness: 0.997
Verse Prominence
Psalms 71.8 (ODRV) 5.258
Job 39.16 (Geneva) 2.631
Luke 8.17 (Geneva) 2.631
Romans 7.4 (Geneva) 2.631
Jeremiah 8.7 (Douay-Rheims) 2.63
Psalms 19.6 (AKJV) 2.629
Psalms 49.1 (AKJV) 2.629
Acts 15.28 (ODRV) 2.629
John 21.25 (ODRV) 2.629
Romans 3.4 (ODRV) 2.628
1 Samuel 7.16 (AKJV) 2.628
Romans 3.31 (AKJV) 2.628
Luke 13.10 (ODRV) 2.627
1 John 1.9 (Tyndale) 2.626
John 1.17 (AKJV) 2.626
Romans 3.27 (Geneva) 2.626
Psalms 148.8 (AKJV) 2.626
Romans 14.17 (ODRV) 2.625
Romans 8.2 (ODRV) 2.624
Romans 3.31 (ODRV) 2.623
Proverbs 4.27 (AKJV) 2.623
Matthew 11.30 (AKJV) 2.622
Hebrews 4.15 (ODRV) 2.621
1 Corinthians 6.2 (AKJV) 2.62
Galatians 3.10 (Tyndale) 2.618
1 John 1.9 (AKJV) 2.618
Psalms 2.10 (AKJV) 2.617
Romans 2.6 (AKJV) 2.615
Mark 16.15 (ODRV) 2.615
Romans 2.15 (Tyndale) 2.613
Galatians 5.22 (AKJV) 2.601
Romans 2.11 (AKJV) 2.587
Romans 2.11 (Geneva) 2.587
Romans 13.5 (AKJV) 2.585
Psalms 44.21 (AKJV) 2.578
Acts 24.16 (AKJV) 2.574
Romans 13.1 (Geneva) 2.48
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: 0.9
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
1 John 8.566
James 8.492
Ezekiel 8.396
1 Samuel 8.217
Acts 6.797
John 6.794
1 Corinthians 6.71
Romans 6.045
Matthew 5.82
Psalms 4.828
Diversity: 0.917
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
1 Samuel 7 8.284
Ezekiel 20 8.27
Psalms 49 8.224
1 John 1 8.211
Acts 15 8.176
1 Corinthians 9 8.17
Matthew 19 8.133
Romans 3 8.091
James 1 8.055
John 1 8.037
Romans 2 8.0
Romans 8 7.731
Diversity: 0.929
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Psalms 49.1 7.14
Psalms 49.2 7.14
Acts 15.20 7.139
1 Corinthians 9.21 7.138
Ezekiel 20.25 7.138
Romans 3.31 7.136
James 1.25 7.135
1 Samuel 7.16 7.135
John 1.17 7.134
Romans 3.27 7.133
Matthew 19.8 7.127
Romans 8.2 7.123
1 John 1.9 7.123
Romans 2.15 7.116
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase