Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon vpon the eighth verse of the first chapter of the Acts of the Apostles Preached to the Honourable Company of the Virginian Plantation, 13. Nouemb. 1622. By Iohn Donne Deane of Saint Pauls, London.

Donne, John, 1572-1631
Publisher: printed by Bernard Alsop for Thomas Iones
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1624
Approximate Era: JamesI
TCP ID: A73849 ESTC ID: S109974 STC ID: 7052
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Acts I, 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 5.4% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 3.3% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 87.7% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.3% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 9.9% -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 0.7% -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) 2.7% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.3% -inf%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text 0.3% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and italicized foreign text 0.3% -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: 0.776
Evenness: 0.852
Part Prominence
New Testament (Geneva) 31.799
New Testament (Wycliffe) 5.522
Apocrypha (AKJV) 2.585
Old Testament (ODRV) 0.774
Old Testament (Geneva) -2.792
New Testament (Tyndale) -2.879
New Testament (ODRV) -3.995
Old Testament (AKJV) -4.903
New Testament (AKJV) -5.285
Diversity: 0.951
Evenness: 0.958
Book Prominence
Acts (Geneva) 15.672
Judith (AKJV) 2.667
Matthew (Wycliffe) 2.62
Mark (Tyndale) 2.548
Mark (Geneva) 2.528
Mark (AKJV) 2.49
Colossians (Geneva) 2.325
Hebrews (Tyndale) 2.252
Acts (Tyndale) 2.169
Genesis (ODRV) 2.156
Revelation (ODRV) 2.15
Genesis (Geneva) 2.091
Jeremiah (AKJV) 2.05
Acts (ODRV) 2.015
Philippians (ODRV) 1.953
1 Peter (AKJV) 1.915
Ephesians (Geneva) 1.901
Acts (AKJV) 1.869
John (Geneva) 1.833
Luke (Geneva) 1.804
Luke (ODRV) 1.711
John (ODRV) 1.647
Matthew (Tyndale) 1.617
Matthew (Geneva) 1.541
John (AKJV) 1.519
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.513
Psalms (ODRV) 1.492
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.431
Matthew (ODRV) 1.289
Matthew (AKJV) 1.188
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.135
Romans (AKJV) 0.86
Diversity: 0.962
Evenness: 0.966
Chapter Prominence
Acts 1 (Geneva) 13.618
Jeremiah 35 (AKJV) 2.27
Judith 2 (AKJV) 2.268
Matthew 24 (Wycliffe) 2.267
Mark 13 (Geneva) 2.267
Mark 13 (AKJV) 2.262
Psalms 103 (ODRV) 2.26
Acts 10 (Tyndale) 2.258
Acts 1 (ODRV) 2.257
Luke 20 (Geneva) 2.257
Acts 12 (Geneva) 2.256
Revelation 16 (ODRV) 2.254
Acts 1 (AKJV) 2.254
Acts 14 (AKJV) 2.249
Luke 24 (ODRV) 2.248
Acts 10 (ODRV) 2.244
Mark 16 (Tyndale) 2.241
Genesis 49 (Geneva) 2.232
Matthew 3 (Geneva) 2.229
Acts 13 (ODRV) 2.224
John 4 (Geneva) 2.222
Ephesians 1 (Geneva) 2.215
Genesis 3 (Geneva) 2.214
Genesis 3 (ODRV) 2.213
John 18 (AKJV) 2.211
Hebrews 13 (Tyndale) 2.206
John 8 (AKJV) 2.192
Matthew 25 (Tyndale) 2.191
John 8 (ODRV) 2.182
Colossians 1 (Geneva) 2.175
1 Corinthians 11 (Geneva) 2.164
1 Peter 1 (AKJV) 2.14
Matthew 10 (AKJV) 2.131
1 Corinthians 1 (AKJV) 2.127
Philippians 2 (ODRV) 2.056
Matthew 5 (ODRV) 2.056
1 Corinthians 15 (Geneva) 2.011
1 Corinthians 15 (ODRV) 1.956
Romans 8 (AKJV) 1.941
Diversity: 0.964
Evenness: 0.968
Verse Prominence
Acts 1.8 (Geneva) 13.039
1 Corinthians 1.6 (AKJV) 2.173
Jeremiah 35.9 (AKJV) 2.173
Acts 10.44 (ODRV) 2.173
Acts 10.44 (Tyndale) 2.173
Psalms 103.14 (ODRV) 2.173
Luke 20.34 (Geneva) 2.173
John 4.4 (Geneva) 2.173
John 8.48 (AKJV) 2.173
Matthew 10.5 (AKJV) 2.173
Acts 1.8 (AKJV) 2.173
Luke 24.47 (ODRV) 2.173
Colossians 1.6 (Geneva) 2.173
Ephesians 1.12 (Geneva) 2.173
Mark 16.20 (Tyndale) 2.172
Genesis 3.21 (ODRV) 2.172
Revelation 16.4 (ODRV) 2.172
1 Corinthians 11.1 (Geneva) 2.172
Genesis 49.10 (Geneva) 2.172
Matthew 3.1 (Geneva) 2.172
John 8.48 (ODRV) 2.172
Matthew 24.14 (Wycliffe) 2.172
Acts 1.6 (ODRV) 2.171
Acts 1.7 (Geneva) 2.171
Matthew 10.18 (AKJV) 2.171
Mark 13.10 (AKJV) 2.171
Mark 13.10 (Geneva) 2.171
Acts 14.7 (AKJV) 2.171
Judith 2.9 (AKJV) 2.17
Acts 12.5 (Geneva) 2.17
Romans 8.21 (AKJV) 2.17
Acts 13.49 (ODRV) 2.169
Matthew 25.34 (Tyndale) 2.164
1 Corinthians 15.28 (ODRV) 2.163
Hebrews 13.8 (Tyndale) 2.163
Genesis 3.15 (Geneva) 2.158
1 Peter 1.19 (AKJV) 2.15
John 18.36 (AKJV) 2.146
1 Corinthians 15.53 (Geneva) 2.135
Matthew 5.3 (ODRV) 2.12
Philippians 2.8 (ODRV) 2.064
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
i
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: 0.917
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Apocalypse 7.936
Mark 7.027
Colossians 6.948
1 Samuel 6.551
Deuteronomy 6.203
Genesis 5.708
Acts 5.13
John 5.127
Luke 5.115
1 Corinthians 5.043
Romans 4.379
Matthew 4.153
Diversity: 0.952
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Apocalypse 20 4.746
Mark 13 4.709
1 Samuel 16 4.703
John 18 4.656
Mark 16 4.646
Deuteronomy 17 4.645
Matthew 20 4.63
Luke 24 4.617
Acts 1 4.613
Genesis 49 4.606
Matthew 4 4.602
Acts 8 4.591
John 8 4.544
Luke 1 4.537
Colossians 1 4.535
Matthew 24 4.527
1 Corinthians 3 4.502
Acts 2 4.46
Matthew 25 4.392
Romans 1 4.32
Romans 8 4.16
Diversity: 0.947
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Acts 8.25 5.26
Matthew 20.20 5.259
Mark 13.9 5.259
Matthew 4.11 5.258
Matthew 24.14 5.258
Mark 16.20 5.257
Deuteronomy 17.14 5.257
Colossians 1.5 5.256
Acts 1.8 5.255
Luke 24.47 5.253
Romans 1.8 5.253
Romans 1.19 5.253
Matthew 4.10 5.25
1 Corinthians 3.6 5.248
Luke 1.1 5.24
John 8.44 5.23
Matthew 25.34 5.224
John 18.36 5.218
Romans 1.16 5.218
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase