Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon about frequent communion preached before the University of Oxford, August the 17th, 1679 / by Tho. Smith ...

Smith, Thomas, 1638-1710
Publisher: Printed for Samuel Smith
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1685
Approximate Era: JamesII
TCP ID: A60584 ESTC ID: R39556 STC ID: S4248
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Corinthians, 1st, XI, 26; Lord's Supper -- Frequency of communion; 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 3.7% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 1.4% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 86.3% 100.0%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.9% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 8.1% -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 0.6% -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) 2.8% -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
New Testament (Geneva) 11.164
New Testament (Vulgate) 6.303
Old Testament (ODRV) 4.742
Old Testament (Geneva) 1.177
New Testament (Tyndale) 1.09
New Testament (ODRV) -0.027
Old Testament (AKJV) -0.935
New Testament (AKJV) -1.317
Diversity: 0.97
Evenness: 0.995
Book Prominence
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 4.216
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 4.134
1 Peter (Vulgate) 2.657
2 Peter (Vulgate) 2.657
Acts (Vulgate) 2.654
Zechariah (Geneva) 2.576
Matthew (Vulgate) 2.43
1 Timothy (Tyndale) 2.415
2 Timothy (Geneva) 2.361
Colossians (Geneva) 2.325
Hebrews (Tyndale) 2.252
Ephesians (Tyndale) 2.219
2 Timothy (AKJV) 2.171
Revelation (AKJV) 2.168
Galatians (ODRV) 2.118
1 John (AKJV) 2.103
Acts (ODRV) 2.015
Hebrews (ODRV) 1.991
Philippians (ODRV) 1.953
Ephesians (Geneva) 1.901
Acts (AKJV) 1.869
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 1.83
Luke (Geneva) 1.804
Hebrews (AKJV) 1.675
John (ODRV) 1.647
John (AKJV) 1.519
Luke (AKJV) 1.505
Psalms (ODRV) 1.492
Romans (ODRV) 1.452
Matthew (ODRV) 1.289
Matthew (AKJV) 1.188
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.135
Psalms (Geneva) 0.888
Romans (AKJV) 0.86
Psalms (AKJV) -0.079
Diversity: 0.978
Evenness: 0.995
Chapter Prominence
1 Corinthians 11 (ODRV) 3.793
1 Corinthians 10 (Geneva) 3.739
1 Corinthians 11 (AKJV) 3.736
Acts 2 (Vulgate) 1.958
Zechariah 14 (Geneva) 1.952
Psalms 86 (Geneva) 1.951
1 Peter 2 (Vulgate) 1.949
Psalms 42 (Geneva) 1.947
Psalms 41 (ODRV) 1.945
Revelation 4 (AKJV) 1.945
Psalms 48 (ODRV) 1.943
Hebrews 7 (Tyndale) 1.943
Psalms 86 (AKJV) 1.942
2 Peter 1 (Vulgate) 1.941
Colossians 4 (Geneva) 1.934
1 Timothy 6 (Tyndale) 1.929
Matthew 9 (ODRV) 1.929
Luke 11 (Geneva) 1.926
Matthew 6 (Vulgate) 1.921
Hebrews 2 (ODRV) 1.918
Acts 20 (AKJV) 1.918
Hebrews 12 (Tyndale) 1.917
Acts 2 (ODRV) 1.915
John 19 (AKJV) 1.914
Hebrews 10 (Tyndale) 1.909
1 John 1 (AKJV) 1.906
Galatians 2 (ODRV) 1.902
Luke 11 (AKJV) 1.9
Hebrews 9 (ODRV) 1.898
Luke 10 (AKJV) 1.898
1 Corinthians 2 (Tyndale) 1.895
Ephesians 3 (Tyndale) 1.895
2 Timothy 3 (Geneva) 1.893
Ephesians 5 (Tyndale) 1.883
1 Corinthians 9 (AKJV) 1.873
Hebrews 9 (AKJV) 1.862
Matthew 25 (AKJV) 1.861
Romans 6 (ODRV) 1.85
Ephesians 5 (Geneva) 1.843
Romans 3 (AKJV) 1.831
1 Corinthians 10 (ODRV) 1.821
John 6 (ODRV) 1.817
Romans 5 (AKJV) 1.814
2 Timothy 3 (AKJV) 1.8
Romans 12 (AKJV) 1.761
Philippians 2 (ODRV) 1.744
1 Corinthians 10 (AKJV) 1.659
Romans 8 (AKJV) 1.629
Diversity: 0.977
Evenness: 0.98
Verse Prominence
1 Corinthians 11.26 (AKJV) 7.904
1 Corinthians 11.25 (AKJV) 3.163
1 Corinthians 11.26 (ODRV) 3.156
1 Corinthians 11.24 (AKJV) 3.152
1 Corinthians 10.16 (Geneva) 3.09
Matthew 6.11 (Vulgate) 1.587
Matthew 9.20 (ODRV) 1.587
Psalms 86.16 (Geneva) 1.587
1 Corinthians 2.5 (Tyndale) 1.586
Matthew 25.31 (AKJV) 1.586
Acts 2.42 (Vulgate) 1.586
Acts 2.46 (ODRV) 1.586
Luke 10.7 (AKJV) 1.586
Psalms 48.10 (ODRV) 1.586
Ephesians 5.2 (Tyndale) 1.585
Romans 3.25 (AKJV) 1.585
Revelation 4.10 (AKJV) 1.585
Luke 11.3 (Geneva) 1.585
Hebrews 7.22 (Tyndale) 1.585
Hebrews 12.2 (Tyndale) 1.584
Hebrews 2.14 (ODRV) 1.584
Acts 20.7 (AKJV) 1.584
Psalms 86.15 (AKJV) 1.584
Luke 11.3 (AKJV) 1.583
1 Timothy 6.18 (Tyndale) 1.583
Zechariah 14.7 (Geneva) 1.583
Galatians 2.20 (ODRV) 1.582
Ephesians 5.30 (Geneva) 1.582
John 6.51 (ODRV) 1.582
Hebrews 9.12 (AKJV) 1.582
1 Peter 2.21 (Vulgate) 1.581
2 Timothy 3.12 (Geneva) 1.581
2 Timothy 3.12 (AKJV) 1.581
John 6.54 (ODRV) 1.581
Hebrews 9.15 (ODRV) 1.58
John 19.34 (AKJV) 1.58
Psalms 42.2 (Geneva) 1.58
Hebrews 10.10 (Tyndale) 1.58
Colossians 4.2 (Geneva) 1.579
Romans 5.10 (AKJV) 1.579
Romans 6.8 (ODRV) 1.577
Psalms 41.2 (ODRV) 1.576
John 6.48 (ODRV) 1.576
Romans 8.16 (AKJV) 1.575
Ephesians 5.30 (Tyndale) 1.575
John 6.52 (ODRV) 1.574
1 Corinthians 9.13 (AKJV) 1.573
2 Peter 1.7 (Vulgate) 1.573
1 John 1.3 (AKJV) 1.57
1 Corinthians 11.29 (ODRV) 1.569
Ephesians 3.19 (Tyndale) 1.562
1 Corinthians 10.16 (ODRV) 1.56
Romans 12.5 (AKJV) 1.54
1 Corinthians 10.16 (AKJV) 1.501
Philippians 2.8 (ODRV) 1.477
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: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
New Testament 51.805
Diversity: 0.9
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Mark 8.694
Colossians 8.615
Galatians 8.181
Ephesians 7.838
2 Corinthians 7.698
Hebrews 7.214
Acts 6.797
Luke 6.782
Romans 6.045
Matthew 5.82
Diversity: 0.923
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Mark 14 7.624
2 Corinthians 10 7.579
Matthew 9 7.547
Acts 1 7.544
Hebrews 2 7.506
Galatians 3 7.495
Colossians 1 7.466
Luke 22 7.465
Hebrews 9 7.46
Romans 3 7.45
Acts 20 7.438
Acts 2 7.391
Ephesians 5 7.388
Diversity: 0.933
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Acts 20.1 6.664
2 Corinthians 10.16 6.664
Matthew 9.21 6.664
Mark 14.15 6.664
Luke 22.12 6.664
Acts 1.13 6.66
Acts 2.44 6.659
Hebrews 9.15 6.655
Colossians 1.18 6.65
Ephesians 5.2 6.649
Acts 2.1 6.649
Acts 2.42 6.647
Romans 3.25 6.641
Galatians 3.1 6.633
Hebrews 2.14 6.626
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase