Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached before the Queen, at White-Hall, March 11th, 1691/2 by R. Meggott ...

Meggott, Richard, d. 1692
Publisher: Printed for Tho Bennet
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1692
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A50555 ESTC ID: R851 STC ID: M1632
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Matthew III, 8; 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 8.3% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 5.0% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 81.2% 100.0%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.6% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 18.2% -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) 7.2% -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: 0.852
Evenness: 0.929
Part Prominence
New Testament (AKJV) 18.342
New Testament (Wycliffe) 6.071
New Testament (Vulgate) 2.884
Old Testament (ODRV) 1.323
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -0.86
Old Testament (Geneva) -2.242
New Testament (Tyndale) -2.329
New Testament (Geneva) -3.366
New Testament (ODRV) -3.446
Old Testament (AKJV) -4.354
Diversity: 0.953
Evenness: 0.976
Book Prominence
Matthew (AKJV) 11.819
Malachi (Douay-Rheims) 3.235
Luke (Wycliffe) 3.234
Luke (Vulgate) 3.204
2 Samuel (Geneva) 3.108
1 Samuel (Geneva) 3.091
Ezekiel (Geneva) 3.055
Exodus (ODRV) 3.0
Jeremiah (Douay-Rheims) 2.841
Revelation (Geneva) 2.821
2 Timothy (AKJV) 2.802
Acts (Tyndale) 2.8
1 John (AKJV) 2.734
James (AKJV) 2.688
Acts (ODRV) 2.645
Job (Geneva) 2.634
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 2.585
Acts (AKJV) 2.499
Genesis (AKJV) 2.435
Ephesians (AKJV) 2.382
Job (AKJV) 2.34
Matthew (Tyndale) 2.248
Matthew (Geneva) 2.172
Luke (AKJV) 2.135
Matthew (ODRV) 1.92
Romans (Geneva) 1.873
Psalms (AKJV) 0.552
Diversity: 0.961
Evenness: 0.978
Chapter Prominence
Matthew 3 (AKJV) 11.042
2 Timothy 2 (AKJV) 5.416
Luke 16 (Vulgate) 2.77
Jeremiah 3 (Douay-Rheims) 2.769
Luke 16 (Wycliffe) 2.768
2 Samuel 12 (Geneva) 2.763
Malachi 1 (Douay-Rheims) 2.761
Exodus 16 (ODRV) 2.761
1 Samuel 15 (Geneva) 2.757
Acts 3 (ODRV) 2.757
Job 33 (Geneva) 2.754
Luke 24 (AKJV) 2.749
Acts 24 (Tyndale) 2.748
Job 33 (AKJV) 2.747
Ezekiel 18 (Geneva) 2.745
Psalms 38 (AKJV) 2.744
2 Corinthians 7 (Geneva) 2.743
Acts 20 (ODRV) 2.74
Acts 26 (AKJV) 2.737
Matthew 3 (ODRV) 2.729
Romans 9 (Geneva) 2.725
1 John 1 (AKJV) 2.723
Revelation 22 (Geneva) 2.721
Matthew 16 (Tyndale) 2.71
Genesis 4 (AKJV) 2.71
Luke 16 (AKJV) 2.69
Matthew 25 (Geneva) 2.673
Matthew 23 (AKJV) 2.665
James 2 (AKJV) 2.655
2 Timothy 3 (AKJV) 2.617
Romans 6 (Geneva) 2.591
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 2.425
Diversity: 0.963
Evenness: 0.978
Verse Prominence
Matthew 3.8 (AKJV) 10.507
Matthew 3.6 (AKJV) 5.261
2 Timothy 2.26 (AKJV) 5.241
1 Samuel 15.24 (Geneva) 2.631
Luke 16.28 (Vulgate) 2.631
Jeremiah 3.13 (Douay-Rheims) 2.63
Job 33.28 (Geneva) 2.63
Matthew 3.6 (ODRV) 2.63
Romans 9.27 (Geneva) 2.63
Job 33.27 (AKJV) 2.63
Malachi 1.8 (Douay-Rheims) 2.63
Romans 6.19 (Geneva) 2.63
Ezekiel 18.25 (Geneva) 2.629
Acts 26.5 (AKJV) 2.629
Psalms 38.8 (AKJV) 2.629
Luke 24.47 (AKJV) 2.628
Acts 20.21 (ODRV) 2.628
Matthew 25.6 (Geneva) 2.628
2 Samuel 12.13 (Geneva) 2.627
Luke 16.15 (AKJV) 2.627
Revelation 22.11 (Geneva) 2.627
Matthew 16.6 (Tyndale) 2.626
Ephesians 4.29 (AKJV) 2.626
Luke 16.23 (Wycliffe) 2.625
Genesis 4.9 (AKJV) 2.624
Acts 3.19 (ODRV) 2.621
Exodus 16.30 (ODRV) 2.621
Matthew 23.23 (AKJV) 2.62
2 Corinthians 7.10 (Geneva) 2.618
1 John 1.9 (AKJV) 2.618
Acts 24.25 (Tyndale) 2.617
James 2.10 (AKJV) 2.615
2 Timothy 3.5 (AKJV) 2.585
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 Kings 6.216
2 Samuel 6.078
1 Samuel 5.91
1 Timothy 5.855
Jeremiah 5.451
2 Corinthians 5.39
Proverbs 4.645
Acts 4.489
John 4.486
Luke 4.474
Isaiah 4.311
Romans 3.738
Matthew 3.512
Diversity: 0.941
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
1 Kings 21 5.801
2 Samuel 12 5.771
Acts 24 5.762
Jeremiah 3 5.76
Luke 15 5.753
1 Samuel 15 5.749
Acts 26 5.749
Acts 3 5.747
Acts 1 5.734
2 Corinthians 7 5.733
Isaiah 58 5.73
Proverbs 14 5.72
Acts 10 5.704
John 8 5.664
1 Timothy 4 5.65
Matthew 23 5.603
Romans 6 5.591
Diversity: 0.941
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Acts 10.21 5.881
1 Samuel 15.24 5.879
Acts 26.20 5.879
Acts 1.18 5.879
Proverbs 14.15 5.878
John 8.9 5.878
Jeremiah 3.13 5.876
1 Kings 21.29 5.875
Acts 26.5 5.874
2 Samuel 12.13 5.871
Romans 6.19 5.871
Isaiah 58.5 5.87
Acts 3.19 5.867
2 Corinthians 7.10 5.865
Luke 15.7 5.865
Acts 24.25 5.863
1 Timothy 4.8 5.826
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase