Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached to the natives of the city and county of Worchester in the church of St Laurence Jewry at their solemn meeting, June 28. 1681 / by George Walls ...

Walls, George, 1644 or 5-1727
Publisher: Printed by J M for Samson Evans and Robert Kettlewell
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1681
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A67427 ESTC ID: R7593 STC ID: W623
Subject Headings: Bible. -- O.T. -- Nehemiah VIII, 10; Church of England; 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 4.5% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 2.9% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 86.3% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 10.2% -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 0.7% -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) 3.2% -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: 0.889
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Apocrypha (AKJV) 6.553
Old Testament (ODRV) 4.742
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: 0.973
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Nehemiah (Douay-Rheims) 2.648
Habakkuk (Douay-Rheims) 2.639
1 Esdras (AKJV) 2.624
Habakkuk (Geneva) 2.622
Nehemiah (AKJV) 2.59
Habakkuk (AKJV) 2.577
2 Timothy (ODRV) 2.442
Jude (AKJV) 2.441
Deuteronomy (Geneva) 2.293
Philippians (Tyndale) 2.291
Galatians (Geneva) 2.219
Ecclesiastes (Geneva) 2.208
1 Timothy (ODRV) 2.179
2 Timothy (AKJV) 2.171
Deuteronomy (AKJV) 2.135
Galatians (ODRV) 2.118
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 2.062
Galatians (AKJV) 2.031
Acts (ODRV) 2.015
Hebrews (ODRV) 1.991
Ephesians (Geneva) 1.901
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 1.83
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 1.827
Isaiah (Geneva) 1.797
Ephesians (AKJV) 1.752
Hebrews (AKJV) 1.675
Matthew (Tyndale) 1.617
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.513
Luke (AKJV) 1.505
Psalms (ODRV) 1.492
Romans (ODRV) 1.452
Proverbs (AKJV) 1.3
Matthew (ODRV) 1.289
Matthew (AKJV) 1.188
Psalms (Geneva) 0.888
Romans (AKJV) 0.86
Psalms (AKJV) -0.079
Diversity: 0.977
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Deuteronomy 16 (Geneva) 2.322
Nehemiah 8 (Douay-Rheims) 2.32
Nehemiah 8 (AKJV) 2.318
Isaiah 11 (Geneva) 2.317
1 Esdras 9 (AKJV) 2.315
Habakkuk 3 (Douay-Rheims) 2.311
Ecclesiasticus 4 (AKJV) 2.311
Habakkuk 3 (Geneva) 2.31
Deuteronomy 16 (AKJV) 2.31
Matthew 20 (Tyndale) 2.307
Habakkuk 3 (AKJV) 2.306
Matthew 20 (AKJV) 2.306
Psalms 8 (Geneva) 2.305
Psalms 8 (ODRV) 2.3
Isaiah 59 (Douay-Rheims) 2.297
Psalms 69 (AKJV) 2.292
Acts 9 (ODRV) 2.292
2 Timothy 4 (ODRV) 2.292
Ecclesiastes 9 (Geneva) 2.281
Psalms 4 (AKJV) 2.278
Hebrews 10 (ODRV) 2.276
Proverbs 10 (AKJV) 2.274
Philippians 4 (Tyndale) 2.271
Psalms 94 (AKJV) 2.27
1 Timothy 4 (ODRV) 2.27
1 Corinthians 1 (Tyndale) 2.269
Galatians 6 (Geneva) 2.248
2 Timothy 4 (AKJV) 2.243
Proverbs 11 (AKJV) 2.24
Proverbs 3 (AKJV) 2.23
Galatians 5 (ODRV) 2.217
Luke 2 (AKJV) 2.216
Romans 3 (ODRV) 2.201
Romans 3 (AKJV) 2.196
Matthew 22 (ODRV) 2.186
1 Corinthians 10 (ODRV) 2.186
Galatians 6 (AKJV) 2.184
Proverbs 14 (AKJV) 2.177
Matthew 6 (AKJV) 2.155
Hebrews 10 (AKJV) 2.148
Jude 1 (AKJV) 2.144
Ephesians 4 (Geneva) 2.067
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 1.973
Diversity: 0.98
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Deuteronomy 16.13 (Geneva) 2.04
1 Esdras 9.47 (AKJV) 2.04
Nehemiah 8.11 (Douay-Rheims) 2.04
1 Esdras 9.52 (AKJV) 2.04
Matthew 20.34 (Tyndale) 2.04
Matthew 20.34 (AKJV) 2.04
Psalms 8.8 (ODRV) 2.039
Isaiah 59.7 (Douay-Rheims) 2.039
Deuteronomy 16.17 (AKJV) 2.039
Nehemiah 8.6 (AKJV) 2.039
Nehemiah 8.8 (AKJV) 2.039
Proverbs 14.31 (AKJV) 2.039
Ecclesiasticus 4.6 (AKJV) 2.039
Ecclesiastes 9.7 (Geneva) 2.039
2 Timothy 4.22 (ODRV) 2.039
1 Esdras 9.51 (AKJV) 2.038
Hebrews 10.23 (ODRV) 2.038
Proverbs 10.15 (AKJV) 2.038
Isaiah 11.13 (Geneva) 2.038
2 Timothy 4.22 (AKJV) 2.038
Habakkuk 3.17 (Geneva) 2.037
Romans 3.17 (AKJV) 2.037
Psalms 94.6 (AKJV) 2.037
Jude 1.12 (AKJV) 2.037
Proverbs 11.17 (AKJV) 2.037
Hebrews 10.25 (AKJV) 2.036
Matthew 6.3 (AKJV) 2.036
1 Corinthians 10.26 (ODRV) 2.036
Ephesians 4.26 (Geneva) 2.036
Philippians 4.7 (Tyndale) 2.035
Psalms 8.7 (Geneva) 2.035
Habakkuk 3.17 (AKJV) 2.035
Galatians 5.14 (ODRV) 2.035
1 Corinthians 1.18 (Tyndale) 2.035
Habakkuk 3.18 (AKJV) 2.034
Habakkuk 3.18 (Geneva) 2.034
Acts 9.36 (ODRV) 2.034
Psalms 69.22 (AKJV) 2.033
Proverbs 11.25 (AKJV) 2.033
Psalms 4.7 (AKJV) 2.033
Romans 3.17 (ODRV) 2.031
Habakkuk 3.17 (Douay-Rheims) 2.03
1 Timothy 4.8 (ODRV) 2.029
Ephesians 4.31 (AKJV) 2.028
Galatians 6.8 (Geneva) 2.027
Proverbs 3.16 (AKJV) 2.023
Galatians 6.8 (AKJV) 2.022
Luke 2.14 (AKJV) 2.021
Matthew 22.39 (ODRV) 2.016
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: 0.909
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Habakkuk 8.614
Nehemiah 8.546
Judges 7.993
2 Kings 7.773
1 Samuel 7.308
Galatians 7.272
Ecclesiastes 7.134
Deuteronomy 6.96
Proverbs 6.043
Isaiah 5.709
Romans 5.136
Diversity: 0.929
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Judges 12 7.132
2 Kings 3 7.114
Nehemiah 8 7.106
Habakkuk 3 7.09
1 Samuel 14 7.087
Deuteronomy 16 7.086
1 Samuel 25 7.054
Deuteronomy 28 7.043
Isaiah 8 7.027
Proverbs 11 7.006
Proverbs 10 6.975
Ecclesiastes 7 6.904
Romans 3 6.901
Galatians 6 6.823
Diversity: 0.938
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Judges 12.1 6.249
Nehemiah 8.11 6.247
1 Samuel 14.6 6.247
Romans 3.15 6.246
Romans 3.17 6.245
Proverbs 11.17 6.245
Deuteronomy 28.23 6.245
Isaiah 8.21 6.245
Proverbs 10.15 6.245
Ecclesiastes 7.9 6.245
Romans 3.16 6.244
1 Samuel 25.11 6.243
Proverbs 11.25 6.237
2 Kings 3.15 6.236
Galatians 6.8 6.234
Habakkuk 3.17 6.233
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase