Please use AI to provide machine generated text flow documents that I can then edit to meet my specific analysis and style.
Note that it is likely that sentence flow diagrams could also be generated although with more back end processing. Propositional and Discourse levels are already available in Logos leaving BibleArc as the only serious hole.
I asked a chat bot to provide me with step by step directions for creating a text flow document aka mechanical layout aka text block diagram aka….. I then asked it to apply those instructions to a text e.g. “O Lord Almighty, the God of our fathers, of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and their righteous seed; 2 who made heaven and earth with all their ornamentation; 3 who set the bounds of the sea by the word of Your command; who closed the abyss and sealed it by Your fearful and glorious name; 4 before whom all things tremble and fear because of Your power; 5 for the majesty of Your glory is unbearable, and the wrath of Your threats toward sinners cannot be withstood; 6 yet Your merciful promise is immeasurable and unsearchable. 7 For You are the Lord Most High, and are tenderhearted, patient, very merciful, and who repent toward the evils of man.
8 “Therefore You, O Lord God of the righteous, have not appointed repentance for the righteous, for Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who have not sinned against You; but You have appointed repentance for me, a sinner, 9 because I have sinned more than the number of the sands on the seashore. My lawlessness, O Lord, is multiplied. Yes, my lawlessness is multiplied, and I am not worthy to fix my eyes to behold the heights of heaven because of the multitude of my wrongdoings. 10 I am bent down with so many iron chains that I shake my head over my sins, neither do I have any relief. For I have provoked Your anger and done evil in your sight. I have set up abominations and multiplied idols.
11 “Now therefore, I bow the knee of my heart, begging goodness from You. 12 I have sinned, O Lord, I have sinned, and I know my lawlessness. 13 I ask and beg you: forgive me, O Lord, forgive me, and do not destroy me because of my lawlessness; neither reserve evils for me, nor be wrathful forever; nor condemn me to the lowest parts of the earth; for You are the Lord God of those who repent. 14 And in me, though I am unworthy, You will show Your goodness, and will save me according to Your great mercy. 15 Therefore I shall praise You continually all the days of my life, for all the powers of the heavens praise You, and Yours is the glory unto the ages. Amen.”
St. Athanasius Academy Septuagint (Saint Athanasius Academy, 2008), 2 Ch 37:1–15.
It gave me the following quite reasonable results:
Mechanical layout of 2 Ch 37:1–15 (SAAS = Prayer of Manasseh)
O Lord Almighty,
the God of our fathers,
of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
and their righteous seed;
who made heaven and earth
with all their ornamentation;
who set the bounds of the sea
by the word of Your command;
who closed the abyss
and sealed it
by Your fearful and glorious name;
before whom all things tremble and fear
because of Your power;
for the majesty of Your glory is unbearable,
and the wrath of Your threats toward sinners cannot be withstood;
yet Your merciful promise is immeasurable
and unsearchable.
For You are the Lord Most High,
and are tenderhearted,
patient,
very merciful,
and who repent toward the evils of man.
Therefore You, O Lord God of the righteous,
have not appointed repentance for the righteous,
for Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
who have not sinned against You;
but You have appointed repentance for me, a sinner,
because I have sinned
more than the number of the sands on the seashore.
My lawlessness, O Lord, is multiplied.
Yes, my lawlessness is multiplied,
and I am not worthy to fix my eyes
to behold the heights of heaven
because of the multitude of my wrongdoings.
I am bent down with so many iron chains
that I shake my head over my sins,
neither do I have any relief.
For I have provoked Your anger
and done evil in Your sight.
I have set up abominations
and multiplied idols.
Now therefore, I bow the knee of my heart,
begging goodness from You.
I have sinned, O Lord,
I have sinned,
and I know my lawlessness.
I ask and beg You:
forgive me, O Lord, forgive me,
and do not destroy me
because of my lawlessness;
neither reserve evils for me,
nor be wrathful forever;
nor condemn me
to the lowest parts of the earth;
for You are the Lord God
of those who repent.
And in me, though I am unworthy,
You will show Your goodness,
and will save me
according to Your great mercy.
Therefore I shall praise You continually
all the days of my life,
for all the powers of the heavens praise You,
and Yours is the glory
unto the ages.
Amen.
- Main assertions are on the left margin; reasons, purposes, and elaborations are indented under the clauses they support, using standard block‑diagramming conventions.
I am certain that I could refine the results for parallel adjectives, nouns etc. but I was only aiming at proof of concept. You may choose the precise rules, preferably based on a method described in a Logos exegesis/hermeneutics book. Me being me, I would like multiple options but most users are probably satisfied with one.
