Early English Printed Sermons


A notable and comfortable exposition of M. Iohn Knoxes, vpon the fourth of Mathew, concerning the tentations of Christ: first had in the publique church, and then afterwards written for the comfort of certaine priuate friends, but now published in print for the benefite of all that feare God.

Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572
Publisher: Printed by Robert VValde graue for Thomas Man dwelling in Pater noster row at the signe of the Talbot
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1583
Approximate Era: Elizabeth
TCP ID: B00238 ESTC ID: None STC ID: None
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Matthew IV, 1-2; Jesus Christ -- Temptation; Sermons, English -- 16th 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
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 87.7% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 4.0% -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) 1.3% -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: 0.893
Evenness: 0.987
Part Prominence
New Testament (Tyndale) 8.16
Apocrypha (ODRV) 7.761
Apocrypha (AKJV) 4.533
Old Testament (ODRV) 2.722
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 0.539
Old Testament (Geneva) -0.844
New Testament (Geneva) -1.967
New Testament (ODRV) -2.047
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.955
New Testament (AKJV) -3.337
Diversity: 0.959
Evenness: 0.992
Book Prominence
1 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 6.867
Matthew (Tyndale) 6.057
Nahum (Douay-Rheims) 3.549
Jonah (ODRV) 3.451
Wisdom (ODRV) 3.391
1 Kings (Geneva) 3.365
3 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 3.344
Ezekiel (Geneva) 3.293
1 Kings (AKJV) 3.291
Hebrews (Tyndale) 3.121
James (ODRV) 3.113
1 John (Geneva) 3.111
Galatians (Geneva) 3.088
1 Peter (Tyndale) 3.083
1 Peter (Geneva) 2.989
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 2.931
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 2.817
John (Tyndale) 2.694
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 2.382
Luke (AKJV) 2.374
Romans (ODRV) 2.321
Matthew (ODRV) 2.158
Romans (Geneva) 2.111
Matthew (AKJV) 2.057
Psalms (Geneva) 1.757
Psalms (AKJV) 0.79
Diversity: 0.966
Evenness: 0.994
Chapter Prominence
1 Kings 17 (Douay-Rheims) 6.045
Matthew 4 (Tyndale) 6.041
Ecclesiasticus 48 (AKJV) 3.026
Wisdom 15 (ODRV) 3.022
3 Kings 10 (Douay-Rheims) 3.021
Ezekiel 19 (Geneva) 3.02
1 Kings 19 (Geneva) 3.02
Nahum 1 (Douay-Rheims) 3.02
Hebrews 2 (Tyndale) 3.019
Jonah 2 (ODRV) 3.009
1 Kings 10 (AKJV) 3.008
Matthew 28 (Tyndale) 3.008
2 Corinthians 9 (ODRV) 3.001
Matthew 4 (ODRV) 2.998
Matthew 4 (AKJV) 2.997
Luke 5 (AKJV) 2.995
Psalms 104 (Geneva) 2.988
Matthew 28 (ODRV) 2.973
Psalms 22 (AKJV) 2.964
Galatians 3 (Geneva) 2.954
James 1 (ODRV) 2.952
1 Peter 5 (Geneva) 2.95
Romans 3 (Geneva) 2.944
Romans 1 (Geneva) 2.927
Luke 12 (AKJV) 2.924
Romans 2 (ODRV) 2.923
Luke 2 (AKJV) 2.92
John 6 (Tyndale) 2.919
1 John 3 (Geneva) 2.911
1 Peter 2 (Tyndale) 2.869
1 Corinthians 15 (ODRV) 2.714
Diversity: 0.97
Evenness: 0.992
Verse Prominence
1 Kings 17.39 (Douay-Rheims) 5.262
Matthew 4.2 (Tyndale) 5.26
Matthew 4.1 (AKJV) 5.256
3 Kings 10.1 (Douay-Rheims) 2.631
1 Kings 10.1 (AKJV) 2.631
Hebrews 2.18 (Tyndale) 2.631
Ecclesiasticus 48.14 (AKJV) 2.631
Psalms 104.21 (Geneva) 2.631
Romans 2.17 (ODRV) 2.631
John 6.49 (Tyndale) 2.63
Luke 5.16 (AKJV) 2.63
2 Corinthians 9.16 (ODRV) 2.63
Psalms 104.14 (Geneva) 2.63
1 Peter 5.10 (Geneva) 2.63
Matthew 4.2 (AKJV) 2.629
Matthew 4.1 (Tyndale) 2.628
Romans 3.20 (Geneva) 2.628
1 Kings 19.17 (Geneva) 2.628
Nahum 1.2 (Douay-Rheims) 2.628
Matthew 4.3 (ODRV) 2.628
1 Peter 2.21 (Tyndale) 2.627
James 1.16 (ODRV) 2.627
1 John 3.8 (Geneva) 2.627
Ezekiel 19.13 (Geneva) 2.626
Matthew 28.19 (Tyndale) 2.626
Galatians 3.10 (Geneva) 2.626
Luke 2.11 (AKJV) 2.626
Matthew 4.4 (Tyndale) 2.626
Romans 1.22 (Geneva) 2.625
Wisdom 15.18 (ODRV) 2.625
Psalms 22.21 (AKJV) 2.624
Luke 12.15 (AKJV) 2.624
Jonah 2.1 (ODRV) 2.622
1 Corinthians 15.20 (ODRV) 2.616
Matthew 28.18 (ODRV) 2.599
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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