So here are the three "Nestorian" texts. I wish GLP let me print the Chinese characters, but it doesn't. So we have to work purely in English here.

Text 2142: Xuting Míshisuo Jīng I translated this (perhaps clumsily) as "Prologue to the Lost Poem" but it has been translated by an actual pro scholar as the "Sutra of Hearing the Messiah." It has been eplored to some extent by a man named Jean-Pierre Charbonnier, who writes:

Composed of 206 verses, the document provides a basic outline of the fundamental teachings of Christianity. It begins with twenty verses of invocation about the invisible God and to the heavenly spirits that serve him, followed by a description of humanity and the distance caused by sin and the condition of mortality. The text continues to speak of the virgin birth and the death of Jesus Christ. The manuscript is incomplete, ending abruptly and mid-verse discussing Jesus' death.

Text 2143: Daqín jing jiao san wei meng du zan "Luminous Religion's Hymn of Perfection of the Three Majesties": Title translated by me and an unknown scholar. Not much info I could scrape up on this one; apparently there is a copy in Paris somewhere, however, so its on the scholarly radar.

Its a bit long but here is my preliminary translation of part of the first passage. NOTE: I am not a pro and I do not vouch for the accuracy of this translation.


"The sole unchanging thing the being of the root of all that is good. Now I recall all the mercy and blessings of this kingdom. The Magnificent Son of [???], the universal holy one, has saved myriads of people in the world of suffering.　The king of those beings that live, the lamb of mercy, the lamb of compassion, the lamb of suffering...His Son is located at the Right Hand of the Father; there is no seat higher than His."
and it goes on...quite beautiful.

The next text, Number 2144, gave me a bit more difficulty...at first.