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The beauty, vigour and strength of youth bespoke for God in a sermon lately preached to young men / by Thomas Powell ...

Powell, Thomas, 1608-1660
Publisher: Printed for Ben Harris
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1676
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A55560 ESTC ID: R33947 STC ID: P3069
Subject Headings: Bible. -- O.T. -- Ecclesiastes XII, 1; 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 7.3% 4.2%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 4.3% 2.8%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 81.8% 91.7%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.2% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.2% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 12.8% 6.9%
sim_score Average cosine similarity score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.8% 0.8%
cross_score Average cross encoder score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.7% 0.8%
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) 5.4% 6.9%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.2% -inf%
foreign_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.2% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.2% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.2% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 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: 0.747
Evenness: 0.805
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Geneva) 37.124
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 2.479
Apocrypha (AKJV) 1.325
New Testament (Vulgate) 1.074
Old Testament (ODRV) -0.487
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -2.669
New Testament (Geneva) -5.176
New Testament (ODRV) -5.255
Old Testament (AKJV) -6.164
New Testament (AKJV) -6.545
Diversity: 0.967
Evenness: 0.95
Book Prominence
Ecclesiastes (Geneva) 11.1
Ecclesiastes (Douay-Rheims) 6.833
1 John (Geneva) 3.887
1 John (AKJV) 2.299
1 Peter (AKJV) 2.111
2 Thessalonians (Vulgate) 1.44
Habakkuk (Douay-Rheims) 1.386
Nehemiah (Geneva) 1.381
1 Chronicles (Geneva) 1.369
Nehemiah (AKJV) 1.337
1 John (Vulgate) 1.303
Leviticus (Geneva) 1.276
Hosea (Douay-Rheims) 1.262
Mark (AKJV) 1.236
2 Peter (ODRV) 1.226
Leviticus (AKJV) 1.174
2 Timothy (Geneva) 1.107
1 Samuel (AKJV) 1.03
1 John (ODRV) 0.983
Colossians (AKJV) 0.942
1 Timothy (Geneva) 0.928
2 Timothy (AKJV) 0.918
Genesis (ODRV) 0.903
Deuteronomy (AKJV) 0.881
Exodus (AKJV) 0.866
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 0.809
James (AKJV) 0.804
Galatians (AKJV) 0.777
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 0.771
Job (Geneva) 0.75
Hebrews (ODRV) 0.738
Hebrews (Geneva) 0.707
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 0.701
Philippians (AKJV) 0.687
Ephesians (Geneva) 0.647
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 0.641
Acts (AKJV) 0.615
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.554
Genesis (AKJV) 0.551
Proverbs (Geneva) 0.519
Job (AKJV) 0.456
Hebrews (AKJV) 0.422
John (ODRV) 0.394
Matthew (Geneva) 0.288
John (AKJV) 0.265
Luke (AKJV) 0.251
Psalms (ODRV) 0.239
Isaiah (AKJV) 0.167
Proverbs (AKJV) 0.046
Romans (Geneva) -0.011
Matthew (AKJV) -0.065
Psalms (Geneva) -0.366
Romans (AKJV) -0.393
Psalms (AKJV) -1.332
Diversity: 0.978
Evenness: 0.957
Chapter Prominence
Ecclesiastes 12 (Geneva) 8.098
Ecclesiastes 12 (Douay-Rheims) 5.047
Ecclesiastes 1 (Geneva) 4.037
Ecclesiastes 12 (AKJV) 3.991
1 John 2 (Geneva) 2.988
Ecclesiasticus 25 (Douay-Rheims) 1.998
1 John 2 (AKJV) 1.929
1 Peter 5 (AKJV) 1.879
Leviticus 2 (Geneva) 1.019
1 Chronicles 28 (Geneva) 1.018
Nehemiah 5 (Geneva) 1.017
Leviticus 2 (AKJV) 1.016
2 Thessalonians 2 (Vulgate) 1.015
Deuteronomy 10 (AKJV) 1.012
Mark 8 (AKJV) 1.012
Psalms 83 (ODRV) 1.011
Nehemiah 5 (AKJV) 1.011
Hosea 12 (Douay-Rheims) 1.01
Ecclesiasticus 34 (Douay-Rheims) 1.01
1 John 1 (Vulgate) 1.009
Deuteronomy 8 (AKJV) 1.008
Job 39 (Geneva) 1.008
Habakkuk 3 (Douay-Rheims) 1.005
Genesis 17 (AKJV) 1.004
Genesis 9 (ODRV) 1.004
Ecclesiasticus 18 (AKJV) 1.004
Proverbs 5 (Douay-Rheims) 1.003
Psalms 110 (AKJV) 1.002
Exodus 34 (AKJV) 0.997
1 Samuel 2 (AKJV) 0.992
Proverbs 16 (Douay-Rheims) 0.992
Genesis 18 (AKJV) 0.991
Genesis 25 (AKJV) 0.991
1 John 2 (Vulgate) 0.988
Proverbs 23 (Douay-Rheims) 0.983
Matthew 19 (Geneva) 0.983
Acts 26 (AKJV) 0.98
John 13 (ODRV) 0.979
Psalms 33 (ODRV) 0.979
2 Peter 2 (ODRV) 0.979
Ecclesiastes 11 (AKJV) 0.974
Hebrews 3 (AKJV) 0.973
Job 22 (AKJV) 0.972
Psalms 106 (Geneva) 0.967
Job 21 (Geneva) 0.967
2 Corinthians 6 (AKJV) 0.964
Ecclesiasticus 33 (AKJV) 0.964
Proverbs 16 (Geneva) 0.964
John 7 (ODRV) 0.963
Romans 7 (Geneva) 0.961
Proverbs 8 (Geneva) 0.961
Ecclesiastes 11 (Geneva) 0.959
Genesis 1 (AKJV) 0.956
Psalms 22 (AKJV) 0.954
2 Timothy 3 (Geneva) 0.952
1 John 4 (ODRV) 0.949
1 Timothy 4 (Geneva) 0.949
Psalms 9 (AKJV) 0.946
Matthew 11 (AKJV) 0.945
Romans 3 (Geneva) 0.935
Psalms 104 (AKJV) 0.935
Luke 1 (AKJV) 0.932
James 4 (AKJV) 0.931
Philippians 1 (AKJV) 0.927
John 4 (AKJV) 0.919
Romans 7 (AKJV) 0.915
Hebrews 12 (Geneva) 0.91
Hebrews 12 (ODRV) 0.91
Colossians 1 (AKJV) 0.897
Isaiah 1 (AKJV) 0.895
Hebrews 12 (AKJV) 0.892
2 Timothy 2 (AKJV) 0.88
Proverbs 14 (AKJV) 0.872
Galatians 5 (AKJV) 0.853
Psalms 119 (AKJV) 0.8
Ephesians 4 (Geneva) 0.762
Diversity: 0.981
Evenness: 0.961
Verse Prominence
Ecclesiastes 12.1 (Geneva) 7.39
Ecclesiastes 12.1 (Douay-Rheims) 4.597
Ecclesiastes 12.1 (AKJV) 3.698
Ecclesiastes 1.2 (Geneva) 3.679
1 John 2.15 (Geneva) 2.763
Ecclesiastes 12.6 (AKJV) 1.849
Ecclesiasticus 25.14 (Douay-Rheims) 1.846
Proverbs 23.26 (Douay-Rheims) 1.843
1 Peter 5.5 (AKJV) 1.84
1 John 2.15 (AKJV) 1.823
1 Samuel 2.18 (AKJV) 0.926
Genesis 17.3 (AKJV) 0.926
Leviticus 2.14 (AKJV) 0.926
Leviticus 2.14 (Geneva) 0.926
Ecclesiasticus 34.16 (Douay-Rheims) 0.925
John 13.37 (ODRV) 0.925
Exodus 34.8 (AKJV) 0.925
Habakkuk 3.18 (Douay-Rheims) 0.925
Ecclesiastes 12.2 (AKJV) 0.925
Ecclesiastes 12.3 (Geneva) 0.925
John 4.37 (AKJV) 0.925
Nehemiah 5.15 (AKJV) 0.925
Nehemiah 5.15 (Geneva) 0.925
Proverbs 16.15 (Geneva) 0.925
Proverbs 14.26 (AKJV) 0.924
1 John 4.10 (ODRV) 0.924
Psalms 83.12 (ODRV) 0.924
1 Chronicles 28.9 (Geneva) 0.924
Psalms 22.27 (AKJV) 0.924
Deuteronomy 8.11 (AKJV) 0.924
Ecclesiastes 12.3 (AKJV) 0.924
Ecclesiastes 12.4 (Geneva) 0.924
Mark 8.36 (AKJV) 0.924
Deuteronomy 10.13 (AKJV) 0.923
Ecclesiasticus 33.13 (AKJV) 0.923
1 John 1.8 (Vulgate) 0.923
Proverbs 23.17 (Douay-Rheims) 0.923
Genesis 1.26 (AKJV) 0.923
2 Thessalonians 2.7 (Vulgate) 0.923
Ecclesiasticus 18.22 (AKJV) 0.923
Proverbs 16.6 (Douay-Rheims) 0.923
Romans 7.25 (Geneva) 0.922
John 7.27 (ODRV) 0.922
Psalms 106.21 (Geneva) 0.922
Job 39.35 (Geneva) 0.922
Hebrews 3.7 (AKJV) 0.922
Proverbs 8.17 (Geneva) 0.922
Proverbs 5.22 (Douay-Rheims) 0.922
2 Timothy 2.22 (AKJV) 0.922
Psalms 110.3 (AKJV) 0.922
Psalms 104.34 (AKJV) 0.921
Genesis 18.27 (AKJV) 0.921
Genesis 9.6 (ODRV) 0.921
Ephesians 4.26 (Geneva) 0.921
2 Timothy 3.15 (Geneva) 0.921
1 John 2.15 (Vulgate) 0.921
Romans 7.22 (AKJV) 0.92
Job 22.21 (AKJV) 0.92
Matthew 19.19 (Geneva) 0.92
Acts 26.28 (AKJV) 0.92
Genesis 25.34 (AKJV) 0.92
Ecclesiastes 11.9 (AKJV) 0.919
Psalms 119.6 (AKJV) 0.919
Hosea 12.5 (Douay-Rheims) 0.919
Psalms 119.9 (AKJV) 0.919
Psalms 9.17 (AKJV) 0.918
2 Corinthians 6.2 (AKJV) 0.918
Ecclesiastes 11.6 (AKJV) 0.918
Psalms 33.19 (ODRV) 0.918
2 Peter 2.19 (ODRV) 0.918
Colossians 1.10 (AKJV) 0.917
Matthew 11.30 (AKJV) 0.917
Galatians 5.9 (AKJV) 0.917
Isaiah 1.3 (AKJV) 0.917
Hebrews 12.28 (Geneva) 0.916
Job 21.13 (Geneva) 0.916
Romans 3.18 (Geneva) 0.91
Hebrews 12.29 (ODRV) 0.909
Hebrews 12.29 (AKJV) 0.909
James 4.4 (AKJV) 0.909
Philippians 1.21 (AKJV) 0.905
Luke 1.75 (AKJV) 0.903
Ecclesiastes 11.9 (Geneva) 0.897
1 Timothy 4.8 (Geneva) 0.894
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: 0.444
Evenness: 0.918
Part Prominence
New Testament 18.472
Old Testament -14.001
Diversity: 0.953
Evenness: 0.995
Book Prominence
Colossians 7.31
Habakkuk 3.871
1 Chronicles 3.739
Leviticus 3.373
Mark 3.042
1 John 2.913
2 Timothy 2.905
1 Kings 2.871
2 Samuel 2.734
Ecclesiastes 2.391
Exodus 2.233
Deuteronomy 2.217
Job 2.105
2 Corinthians 2.046
Genesis 1.723
Hebrews 1.562
Proverbs 1.3
Acts 1.144
1 Corinthians 1.057
Isaiah 0.966
Matthew 0.168
Psalms -0.824
Diversity: 0.977
Evenness: 0.998
Chapter Prominence
Colossians 1 4.121
1 Kings 30 2.173
Leviticus 2 2.159
1 Chronicles 28 2.139
Job 30 2.138
1 Kings 4 2.132
Deuteronomy 5 2.121
Job 22 2.115
1 Kings 10 2.112
Deuteronomy 8 2.108
Psalms 110 2.106
Mark 8 2.103
Exodus 34 2.091
Psalms 84 2.09
2 Samuel 19 2.086
Psalms 104 2.083
Isaiah 66 2.083
Psalms 30 2.079
Ecclesiastes 1 2.078
Genesis 17 2.077
Habakkuk 2 2.077
Psalms 68 2.065
Psalms 116 2.058
Hebrews 3 2.05
1 Corinthians 5 2.047
Proverbs 23 2.041
Psalms 22 2.039
Psalms 106 2.037
Isaiah 26 2.028
Proverbs 14 2.012
Genesis 1 2.01
Ecclesiastes 9 2.008
Proverbs 16 1.995
Matthew 19 1.973
Proverbs 8 1.973
Ecclesiastes 12 1.972
Psalms 9 1.97
1 John 2 1.964
2 Corinthians 6 1.951
Acts 13 1.948
2 Timothy 2 1.935
Matthew 11 1.893
Isaiah 1 1.858
Psalms 119 1.778
Hebrews 12 1.77
Diversity: 0.978
Evenness: 0.998
Verse Prominence
Colossians 1.10 4.236
Leviticus 2.14 2.127
1 Kings 30.2 2.127
1 Kings 10.3 2.127
Psalms 9.19 2.126
Acts 13.16 2.126
Genesis 17.3 2.126
Exodus 34.8 2.126
1 Kings 10.23 2.126
Psalms 68.10 2.126
Psalms 104.34 2.125
Psalms 22.27 2.125
Psalms 106.21 2.125
2 Samuel 19.35 2.124
Proverbs 16.6 2.123
Proverbs 23.17 2.122
Matthew 19.22 2.122
Proverbs 8.17 2.12
1 Kings 4.29 2.12
Proverbs 14.26 2.12
1 Corinthians 5.6 2.119
Psalms 116.7 2.119
Hebrews 3.7 2.119
Habakkuk 2.6 2.119
Job 22.21 2.118
Mark 8.36 2.117
Isaiah 26.4 2.116
Deuteronomy 8.11 2.115
Job 30.23 2.115
1 Chronicles 28.9 2.114
2 Timothy 2.22 2.114
Hebrews 12.29 2.113
Proverbs 23.26 2.11
Psalms 119.6 2.11
2 Corinthians 6.4 2.11
Deuteronomy 5.29 2.109
Psalms 30.5 2.108
Hebrews 12.28 2.106
Psalms 110.3 2.106
Psalms 84.11 2.105
Isaiah 66.2 2.103
Isaiah 1.3 2.103
1 John 2.15 2.103
Genesis 1.26 2.102
Matthew 11.29 2.079
Ecclesiastes 12.1 2.078
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase