Early English Printed Sermons


The feast of feasts, or, The celebration of the sacred nativity of our blessed Lord and Saviour, Jesvs Christ grounded upon the Scriptures and confirmed by the practice of the Christian church in all ages.

Fisher, Edward, fl. 1627-1655
Publisher: Printed by Leonard Lichfield
Place of Publication: Oxford
Publication Year: 1644
Approximate Era: CivilWar
TCP ID: B22971 ESTC ID: None STC ID: F994
Subject Headings: Christmas sermons; Jesus Christ -- Nativity;
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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 16.8% 0.7%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 10.8% 0.4%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 80.7% 98.5%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text -inf% 0.7%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.6% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 16.8% 1.5%
sim_score Average cosine similarity score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.8% 0.7%
cross_score Average cross encoder score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.7% 0.6%
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) 5.0% 0.7%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation -inf% 0.4%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text -inf% 0.7%
foreign_italicized_cited Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent citation -inf% 0.4%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text -inf% 0.7%
foreign_latin_cited Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation -inf% 0.4%
foreign_latin_italicized Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and italicized foreign text -inf% 0.7%
foreign_latin_italicized_cited Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, an adjacent citation, and italicized foreign text -inf% 0.4%



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: 0.909
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Vulgate) 7.408
Apocrypha (AKJV) 4.533
New Testament (Vulgate) 4.282
Old Testament (ODRV) 2.722
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 0.539
Old Testament (Geneva) -0.844
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.931
New Testament (Geneva) -1.967
New Testament (ODRV) -2.047
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.955
New Testament (AKJV) -3.337
Diversity: 0.975
Evenness: 0.991
Book Prominence
Romans (AKJV) 4.54
John (Tyndale) 3.378
Leviticus (Vulgate) 2.115
2 Maccabees (AKJV) 2.068
Tobit (AKJV) 2.061
2 Thessalonians (ODRV) 2.054
Zechariah (Geneva) 2.001
Zechariah (Douay-Rheims) 1.989
Canticles (Geneva) 1.962
Mark (AKJV) 1.915
John (Vulgate) 1.908
Titus (ODRV) 1.905
2 Timothy (ODRV) 1.867
Jude (AKJV) 1.866
Philippians (Tyndale) 1.716
2 Peter (AKJV) 1.708
Exodus (Geneva) 1.688
1 John (Tyndale) 1.679
Galatians (Geneva) 1.644
1 Peter (Tyndale) 1.639
2 Timothy (AKJV) 1.596
Genesis (ODRV) 1.581
Galatians (ODRV) 1.543
Genesis (Geneva) 1.516
Galatians (AKJV) 1.456
Luke (Tyndale) 1.352
Ephesians (Geneva) 1.326
Acts (AKJV) 1.294
John (Geneva) 1.258
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 1.252
Genesis (AKJV) 1.229
Luke (Geneva) 1.229
Luke (ODRV) 1.136
John (ODRV) 1.072
Matthew (Tyndale) 1.042
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 0.938
Luke (AKJV) 0.93
Romans (ODRV) 0.877
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 0.856
Isaiah (AKJV) 0.845
Romans (Geneva) 0.668
Matthew (AKJV) 0.613
Psalms (Geneva) 0.313
Psalms (AKJV) -0.654
Diversity: 0.981
Evenness: 0.994
Chapter Prominence
Romans 14 (AKJV) 4.751
John 2 (Tyndale) 3.254
Leviticus 23 (Vulgate) 1.639
Tobit 8 (AKJV) 1.637
Canticles 7 (Geneva) 1.637
2 Maccabees 1 (AKJV) 1.636
Zechariah 3 (Geneva) 1.635
Zechariah 8 (Douay-Rheims) 1.634
Exodus 13 (Geneva) 1.634
Mark 1 (AKJV) 1.632
Isaiah 7 (AKJV) 1.63
Matthew 1 (Tyndale) 1.629
John 3 (Vulgate) 1.623
1 Corinthians 5 (ODRV) 1.621
Isaiah 9 (Douay-Rheims) 1.618
Luke 3 (ODRV) 1.617
Luke 3 (Geneva) 1.615
2 Thessalonians 2 (ODRV) 1.615
John 10 (Tyndale) 1.609
Luke 2 (Tyndale) 1.609
Isaiah 9 (AKJV) 1.608
John 1 (Vulgate) 1.608
Matthew 4 (AKJV) 1.606
Genesis 1 (Geneva) 1.603
Luke 23 (Tyndale) 1.601
Luke 2 (Geneva) 1.599
Luke 2 (ODRV) 1.598
Acts 20 (AKJV) 1.597
Psalms 139 (Geneva) 1.594
John 4 (ODRV) 1.592
Titus 3 (ODRV) 1.591
Acts 13 (AKJV) 1.59
Galatians 4 (Geneva) 1.588
2 Timothy 2 (ODRV) 1.588
Philippians 4 (Tyndale) 1.585
1 Corinthians 14 (Geneva) 1.584
Galatians 4 (ODRV) 1.582
Genesis 3 (Geneva) 1.58
Romans 5 (Geneva) 1.579
Genesis 1 (ODRV) 1.576
Genesis 49 (AKJV) 1.575
Galatians 4 (AKJV) 1.567
Matthew 11 (AKJV) 1.564
John 10 (ODRV) 1.558
2 Peter 2 (AKJV) 1.556
Luke 1 (AKJV) 1.551
John 1 (ODRV) 1.538
Galatians 5 (ODRV) 1.531
John 3 (Geneva) 1.531
Luke 2 (AKJV) 1.53
Psalms 78 (AKJV) 1.522
Ephesians 5 (Geneva) 1.521
1 John 4 (Tyndale) 1.503
Romans 5 (AKJV) 1.493
Romans 13 (ODRV) 1.481
2 Timothy 3 (AKJV) 1.478
1 Peter 2 (Tyndale) 1.478
Jude 1 (AKJV) 1.457
Diversity: 0.985
Evenness: 0.994
Verse Prominence
Romans 14.6 (AKJV) 4.046
Luke 2.13 (AKJV) 2.699
John 2.1 (Tyndale) 2.699
Acts 20.16 (AKJV) 1.351
Zechariah 8.9 (Douay-Rheims) 1.351
Zechariah 3.10 (Geneva) 1.351
John 10.40 (ODRV) 1.351
Tobit 8.19 (AKJV) 1.351
Galatians 4.9 (Geneva) 1.351
Galatians 4.9 (AKJV) 1.351
Philippians 4.3 (Tyndale) 1.351
Luke 3.23 (Geneva) 1.351
Mark 1.12 (AKJV) 1.351
Matthew 4.8 (AKJV) 1.351
John 4.46 (ODRV) 1.351
John 2.12 (Tyndale) 1.351
John 2.13 (Tyndale) 1.351
Luke 3.23 (ODRV) 1.351
Luke 2.1 (AKJV) 1.351
Canticles 7.11 (Geneva) 1.351
Exodus 13.4 (Geneva) 1.351
Luke 2.8 (Geneva) 1.351
John 3.30 (Vulgate) 1.351
Leviticus 23.6 (Vulgate) 1.351
Matthew 4.5 (AKJV) 1.35
2 Maccabees 1.9 (AKJV) 1.35
Galatians 4.11 (AKJV) 1.35
Isaiah 9.3 (AKJV) 1.35
Luke 23.54 (Tyndale) 1.35
Matthew 1.18 (Tyndale) 1.35
Luke 2.1 (Tyndale) 1.35
2 Thessalonians 2.15 (ODRV) 1.35
1 Peter 2.16 (Tyndale) 1.349
Isaiah 7.14 (AKJV) 1.349
Isaiah 9.2 (AKJV) 1.349
John 3.33 (Geneva) 1.349
John 3.30 (Geneva) 1.349
John 10.22 (Tyndale) 1.349
Matthew 11.13 (AKJV) 1.349
Genesis 1.13 (ODRV) 1.349
Luke 1.78 (AKJV) 1.349
John 1.9 (ODRV) 1.348
Acts 13.18 (AKJV) 1.348
2 Peter 2.19 (AKJV) 1.348
1 Corinthians 5.7 (ODRV) 1.347
Genesis 1.5 (Geneva) 1.347
Romans 5.8 (Geneva) 1.347
Titus 3.1 (ODRV) 1.347
Jude 1.12 (AKJV) 1.347
Luke 2.11 (AKJV) 1.346
2 Timothy 2.25 (ODRV) 1.346
2 Timothy 3.13 (AKJV) 1.345
1 Corinthians 14.40 (Geneva) 1.345
Romans 13.6 (ODRV) 1.344
Galatians 5.1 (ODRV) 1.344
Isaiah 9.2 (Douay-Rheims) 1.344
Luke 2.7 (ODRV) 1.344
Galatians 4.5 (ODRV) 1.344
Psalms 78.6 (AKJV) 1.344
1 John 4.7 (Tyndale) 1.343
Ephesians 5.19 (Geneva) 1.343
Galatians 4.31 (ODRV) 1.342
Psalms 139.12 (Geneva) 1.342
Genesis 49.10 (AKJV) 1.34
John 1.14 (Vulgate) 1.337
Genesis 3.15 (Geneva) 1.336
2 Peter 2.10 (AKJV) 1.334
Luke 2.14 (AKJV) 1.332
Luke 2.10 (AKJV) 1.33
Romans 5.12 (AKJV) 1.302
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: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Apocrypha 28.862
Old Testament -14.001
New Testament -14.862
Diversity: 0.975
Evenness: 0.99
Book Prominence
Apocalypse 3.685
1 Chronicles 3.473
1 Maccabees 2.026
Haggai 1.778
Joel 1.684
Esther 1.585
Nehemiah 1.496
Amos 1.363
Micah 1.257
2 Thessalonians 1.248
Zechariah 1.121
Leviticus 1.066
Titus 0.964
Judges 0.943
John 0.876
Luke 0.864
Hosea 0.844
2 Chronicles 0.805
2 Peter 0.756
Mark 0.735
Daniel 0.705
Isaiah 0.7
Colossians 0.655
Numbers 0.612
2 Timothy 0.598
Philippians 0.293
1 Samuel 0.258
Galatians 0.222
1 Timothy 0.203
Romans 0.127
1 Peter 0.01
Exodus -0.074
Revelation -0.085
Deuteronomy -0.09
Ephesians -0.121
Jeremiah -0.201
2 Corinthians -0.261
Genesis -0.584
Hebrews -0.745
Acts -1.163
1 Corinthians -1.25
Matthew -2.139
Psalms -3.131
Diversity: 0.99
Evenness: 0.993
Chapter Prominence
1 Chronicles 16 1.567
Apocalypse 1 1.561
Deuteronomy 16 1.531
Isaiah 7 1.513
Isaiah 6 1.476
John 2 1.471
Isaiah 8 1.471
Genesis 49 1.431
Luke 11 1.427
Luke 2 1.374
Romans 14 1.355
John 5 1.327
Galatians 5 1.302
1 Maccabees 4 0.791
Numbers 29 0.791
Exodus 11 0.781
Numbers 4 0.775
Judges 14 0.775
Jeremiah 33 0.769
Genesis 16 0.768
Mark 15 0.766
Micah 5 0.763
Leviticus 23 0.758
Esther 4 0.756
Zechariah 3 0.756
Exodus 10 0.754
Deuteronomy 27 0.753
Isaiah 4 0.752
Psalms 95 0.748
1 Samuel 7 0.744
Mark 1 0.744
Amos 4 0.739
Nehemiah 9 0.738
Haggai 2 0.732
Hosea 11 0.73
Genesis 12 0.726
1 Corinthians 16 0.709
Acts 18 0.706
Luke 3 0.704
Luke 4 0.702
Genesis 22 0.702
Matthew 2 0.701
Exodus 15 0.7
Isaiah 10 0.7
Deuteronomy 33 0.699
2 Chronicles 20 0.696
Daniel 9 0.696
Isaiah 11 0.691
Joel 2 0.69
Psalms 27 0.689
Psalms 107 0.683
Isaiah 2 0.682
Psalms 116 0.678
Jeremiah 23 0.678
Matthew 17 0.668
Psalms 22 0.659
Isaiah 9 0.657
John 19 0.65
Luke 14 0.65
Exodus 32 0.65
Psalms 78 0.649
Matthew 27 0.647
Romans 15 0.646
Genesis 2 0.644
2 Corinthians 11 0.643
Revelation 1 0.642
Genesis 18 0.637
Acts 15 0.636
1 Timothy 3 0.636
Psalms 4 0.635
Matthew 4 0.634
Genesis 1 0.63
Galatians 1 0.625
Hebrews 4 0.625
Romans 4 0.623
2 Thessalonians 2 0.619
Hebrews 2 0.608
John 10 0.602
1 Corinthians 7 0.598
Titus 3 0.593
Galatians 4 0.592
Psalms 51 0.589
John 13 0.589
John 4 0.588
1 Corinthians 14 0.58
Luke 1 0.569
Romans 10 0.566
Colossians 2 0.565
Philippians 4 0.565
1 Timothy 4 0.561
Hebrews 9 0.561
2 Timothy 2 0.555
John 6 0.546
Acts 20 0.539
2 Peter 2 0.538
1 Corinthians 3 0.534
Genesis 3 0.526
John 14 0.516
Matthew 11 0.513
Romans 5 0.507
2 Timothy 3 0.497
John 1 0.497
Acts 2 0.492
Ephesians 5 0.49
Luke 16 0.476
Matthew 6 0.467
Philippians 2 0.466
John 3 0.461
Romans 12 0.438
Hebrews 13 0.433
Ephesians 4 0.329
1 Peter 2 0.298
Romans 13 0.104
Diversity: 0.994
Evenness: 0.99
Verse Prominence
Luke 2.8 2.226
Luke 2.11 1.329
1 Chronicles 16.7 0.892
John 5.1 0.892
Deuteronomy 16.10 0.892
John 2.12 0.892
John 2.13 0.891
Luke 3.23 0.891
John 1.28 0.891
John 2.14 0.89
Luke 11.2 0.886
Luke 2.7 0.883
Luke 2.1 0.882
Luke 2.13 0.881
Galatians 5.1 0.877
Genesis 49.10 0.872
Romans 14.6 0.869
Luke 2.14 0.866
Luke 2.10 0.865
Galatians 4.4 0.862
Isaiah 7.14 0.857
Hebrews 13.16 0.856
Isaiah 9.6 0.824
Nehemiah 9.36 0.446
John 10.23 0.446
1 Corinthians 16.8 0.446
Acts 18.21 0.446
Zechariah 3.10 0.446
Numbers 4.23 0.446
Numbers 4.30 0.446
Numbers 4.47 0.446
John 1.43 0.446
Judges 14.10 0.446
Judges 14.17 0.446
John 19.42 0.446
Mark 15.38 0.446
Leviticus 23.24 0.446
Numbers 29.1 0.446
Luke 2.5 0.446
Deuteronomy 16.1 0.446
Luke 2.2 0.446
Nehemiah 9.1 0.445
Esther 4.3 0.445
Matthew 6.18 0.445
1 Maccabees 4.59 0.445
Acts 20.16 0.445
Galatians 4.11 0.445
1 Corinthians 16.3 0.445
Galatians 4.21 0.445
Amos 4.5 0.445
Psalms 27.6 0.445
Deuteronomy 33.19 0.445
Mark 1.12 0.445
Luke 4.2 0.445
John 6.4 0.445
Matthew 27.62 0.445
John 19.31 0.445
John 6.10 0.445
Mark 1.2 0.445
Matthew 11.13 0.445
Luke 1.36 0.445
Luke 2.4 0.445
Deuteronomy 16.9 0.445
Genesis 22.8 0.445
Genesis 16.3 0.445
Galatians 1.24 0.444
Genesis 2.2 0.444
Psalms 107.22 0.444
Psalms 116.17 0.444
Jeremiah 33.15 0.444
Mark 1.13 0.444
John 1.26 0.444
Daniel 9.27 0.444
Genesis 1.5 0.444
Matthew 2.6 0.444
Luke 2.9 0.444
Psalms 22.18 0.444
Hosea 11.1 0.444
Exodus 32.5 0.444
Psalms 78.6 0.444
Psalms 78.7 0.444
John 2.23 0.443
Psalms 51.19 0.443
Isaiah 9.2 0.443
Zechariah 3.8 0.443
John 2.1 0.443
Matthew 27.51 0.443
Mark 1.3 0.443
Mark 1.4 0.443
Luke 16.16 0.443
Romans 10.21 0.443
2 Corinthians 11.25 0.443
Luke 1.32 0.443
Genesis 18.18 0.443
Nehemiah 9.37 0.442
Joel 2.15 0.442
Romans 14.14 0.442
Matthew 2.7 0.442
Isaiah 4.2 0.442
Luke 3.21 0.442
Matthew 4.5 0.442
John 6.33 0.442
Matthew 2.11 0.442
John 4.42 0.442
Exodus 32.4 0.442
Psalms 78.5 0.442
Isaiah 9.3 0.441
John 3.30 0.441
Luke 3.5 0.441
Haggai 2.9 0.441
Exodus 32.6 0.441
Ephesians 4.20 0.441
Matthew 6.17 0.44
Galatians 4.10 0.44
Deuteronomy 27.26 0.44
Romans 15.16 0.44
Genesis 3.14 0.44
Matthew 4.2 0.44
Jeremiah 23.5 0.44
John 3.17 0.44
2 Thessalonians 2.15 0.44
Matthew 6.16 0.439
1 Corinthians 7.5 0.439
1 Corinthians 16.2 0.439
Revelation 1.10 0.439
Acts 15.10 0.439
Acts 15.28 0.439
John 10.30 0.439
John 14.28 0.439
Matthew 2.2 0.439
Luke 14.13 0.439
1 Samuel 7.6 0.438
Galatians 4.9 0.438
1 Timothy 4.5 0.438
Philippians 4.18 0.438
Philippians 4.3 0.438
Colossians 2.17 0.438
John 19.30 0.438
Matthew 2.1 0.438
Exodus 15.1 0.437
Ephesians 5.19 0.437
John 10.22 0.436
Colossians 2.16 0.436
Matthew 4.8 0.436
John 6.35 0.436
Genesis 12.3 0.436
Isaiah 9.7 0.436
Micah 5.2 0.436
Joel 2.17 0.435
1 Timothy 4.3 0.435
Galatians 1.9 0.435
Hebrews 2.17 0.435
2 Chronicles 20.3 0.434
Psalms 4.5 0.434
Matthew 4.1 0.434
Galatians 4.5 0.434
1 Peter 2.16 0.433
2 Timothy 3.13 0.432
1 Timothy 4.4 0.432
John 13.1 0.432
Hebrews 9.26 0.432
Acts 20.7 0.431
Galatians 4.29 0.43
John 1.5 0.43
Hebrews 13.15 0.43
Isaiah 2.4 0.43
John 4.23 0.43
Romans 13.13 0.43
Acts 2.1 0.429
1 Timothy 4.2 0.429
Philippians 2.6 0.428
Acts 15.9 0.427
2 Timothy 2.25 0.427
Romans 13.6 0.425
Hebrews 4.15 0.425
John 1.9 0.424
1 Peter 2.5 0.422
Joel 2.12 0.421
1 Corinthians 3.22 0.416
1 Timothy 3.16 0.416
2 Peter 2.10 0.415
1 Corinthians 14.40 0.414
John 1.14 0.414
1 Timothy 4.1 0.411
Romans 13.7 0.402
Galatians 1.8 0.402
Romans 5.12 0.4
Genesis 3.15 0.397
1 Peter 2.17 0.396
Romans 13.3 0.393
Hebrews 13.17 0.391
Titus 3.1 0.389
Romans 12.1 0.376
John 3.16 0.362
Romans 13.2 0.328
Romans 13.4 0.3
Romans 13.1 0.214
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase