After Christ’s resurrection, “He showed Himself alive by many infallible proofs, being seen of “the Apostles forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God” (Acts 1:3). Jesus Himself, at the very beginning of those forty days, had opened the Apostles’ understanding, enabling them to “understand the Scriptures” (Luke 24:45). On the day of Christ’s ascension, at the concl...

Modern scholarship focuses on the lexical or syntactical features of Buddhist Chinese used in translations scriptures; however, origins language have attracted relatively little attention. Our article explores issue from perspective speech community, and we argue that community’s ethnicity played an important role pre-fourth-century development Chinese. scriptures were mainly introduced to inla...