Early English Printed Sermons


An assize sermon preached August 3, 1685, in the Cathedral Church of St. Peter in York before the Right Honourable Sir Edward Atkins and Sir Thomas Walcot, His Majesty's judges of assize for the northern circuit / by William Stainforth ...

Stainforth, William, d. 1713
Publisher: Printed by John White for Richard Lambert
Place of Publication: York
Publication Year: 1685
Approximate Era: JamesII
TCP ID: A61245 ESTC ID: R34591 STC ID: S5170
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Timothy, 1st, II, 1-2; 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 1.4% -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 90.1% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 3.3% -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 0.6% -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) 1.7% -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: 0.805
Evenness: 0.914
Part Prominence
New Testament (Geneva) 19.711
New Testament (AKJV) 10.649
New Testament (Tyndale) 5.363
New Testament (Vulgate) 2.884
Old Testament (Geneva) -2.242
New Testament (ODRV) -3.446
Old Testament (AKJV) -4.354
Diversity: 0.949
Evenness: 0.966
Book Prominence
1 Timothy (Geneva) 11.978
1 Timothy (AKJV) 8.667
1 Timothy (Tyndale) 5.962
2 Corinthians (Vulgate) 3.022
Titus (ODRV) 2.903
Colossians (Tyndale) 2.871
2 Timothy (ODRV) 2.864
1 Thessalonians (Geneva) 2.809
Philippians (Geneva) 2.707
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 2.675
Hebrews (Tyndale) 2.674
1 John (Geneva) 2.664
1 Timothy (ODRV) 2.601
1 John (AKJV) 2.525
James (AKJV) 2.479
Galatians (AKJV) 2.453
Philippians (ODRV) 2.375
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 2.37
1 Peter (AKJV) 2.338
Ephesians (AKJV) 2.174
Romans (Tyndale) 2.138
Luke (AKJV) 1.927
Romans (Geneva) 1.665
Psalms (Geneva) 1.31
Romans (AKJV) 1.282
Psalms (AKJV) 0.344
Diversity: 0.955
Evenness: 0.969
Chapter Prominence
1 Timothy 2 (Geneva) 11.312
1 Timothy 2 (AKJV) 8.446
1 Timothy 2 (Tyndale) 5.647
2 Corinthians 5 (Vulgate) 2.842
Hebrews 4 (Tyndale) 2.837
2 Corinthians 2 (ODRV) 2.837
Psalms 66 (Geneva) 2.83
Psalms 145 (Geneva) 2.813
Colossians 3 (Tyndale) 2.792
1 John 2 (Geneva) 2.784
2 Timothy 3 (ODRV) 2.781
Titus 2 (ODRV) 2.772
1 Thessalonians 4 (Geneva) 2.771
Luke 6 (AKJV) 2.767
James 3 (AKJV) 2.753
1 John 2 (AKJV) 2.745
1 Timothy 2 (ODRV) 2.74
Philippians 2 (Geneva) 2.735
Psalms 144 (AKJV) 2.73
Philippians 3 (ODRV) 2.722
Galatians 6 (AKJV) 2.716
1 Peter 5 (AKJV) 2.695
Romans 13 (Tyndale) 2.691
1 Thessalonians 5 (AKJV) 2.689
Philippians 2 (ODRV) 2.641
Romans 13 (Geneva) 2.532
Romans 8 (AKJV) 2.525
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 2.505
Romans 13 (AKJV) 2.496
Diversity: 0.96
Evenness: 0.972
Verse Prominence
1 Timothy 2.1 (Geneva) 10.491
1 Timothy 2.1 (AKJV) 7.868
1 Timothy 2.1 (Tyndale) 5.259
Hebrews 4.16 (Tyndale) 2.63
2 Corinthians 2.8 (ODRV) 2.63
2 Corinthians 5.15 (Vulgate) 2.626
Psalms 66.18 (Geneva) 2.624
Colossians 3.14 (Tyndale) 2.624
2 Timothy 3.6 (ODRV) 2.621
Romans 13.2 (Tyndale) 2.62
Psalms 145.9 (Geneva) 2.617
Philippians 2.8 (Geneva) 2.616
Ephesians 4.20 (AKJV) 2.616
Romans 13.6 (Tyndale) 2.615
Romans 8.9 (AKJV) 2.613
1 John 2.2 (Geneva) 2.611
1 Thessalonians 4.11 (Geneva) 2.61
1 John 2.2 (AKJV) 2.606
Psalms 144.10 (AKJV) 2.605
Luke 6.31 (AKJV) 2.602
James 3.16 (AKJV) 2.602
1 Thessalonians 5.22 (AKJV) 2.602
Titus 2.12 (ODRV) 2.597
1 Timothy 2.2 (AKJV) 2.59
1 Timothy 2.2 (Geneva) 2.588
1 Timothy 2.2 (ODRV) 2.585
Galatians 6.10 (AKJV) 2.578
Philippians 3.20 (ODRV) 2.571
Romans 13.4 (AKJV) 2.551
1 Peter 5.11 (AKJV) 2.548
Romans 13.5 (Geneva) 2.547
Philippians 2.8 (ODRV) 2.521
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: 0.857
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Lamentations 13.593
2 Kings 12.968
2 Samuel 12.672
1 Timothy 12.448
Romans 10.331
Matthew 10.106
Psalms 9.114
Diversity: 0.875
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
2 Kings 23 12.435
2 Samuel 21 12.426
2 Samuel 24 12.412
Psalms 144 12.403
Lamentations 4 12.4
1 Timothy 2 12.247
Matthew 7 12.138
Romans 13 11.811
Diversity: 0.875
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
2 Samuel 24.1 12.489
2 Kings 23.25 12.481
Psalms 144.10 12.477
2 Samuel 21.17 12.477
Matthew 7.7 12.465
Lamentations 4.20 12.457
1 Timothy 2.1 12.432
1 Timothy 2.2 12.412
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase