s the Nestorians
familiarized China with the idea of salvation by faith in a divine
personage, they may have helped the spread of Amidism. But the
evidence that we possess seems to show not that the Nestorians
introduced the story of Christ's life and sacrifice into Buddhism but
that they suppressed the idea of atonement by his death, possibly
under Buddhist influence.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1072: The most learned and lucid discussion of these
questions, which includes an account of earlier literature on the
subject, is to be found in Garbe's _Indien und das Christentum_, 1914.
But I am not able to accept all his conclusions. The work, to which I
am much indebted, is cited below as Garbe. See also Carpenter, _Theism
in Medieval India_, 1921, pp. 521-524.]

[Footnote 1073: See Garbe and Harnack, _Mission und Ausbreitung des
Christentums_, ii. Chrysostom (Hom. in Joh. 2. 2) writing at the end
of the fourth century speaks of Syrians, Egyptians, Persians and ten
thousand other nations learning Christianity from translations into
their languages, but one cannot expect geographical accuracy in so
rhetorical a passage.]

[Footnote 1074: Eusebius (_Ecc. Hist_. v. 10), supported by notices in
Jerome and others, states that Pantaenus went from Alexandria to preach
in India and found there Christians using the Gospel according to
Matthew written in Hebrew characters. It had been left there by the
Apostle Bartholomew. But many scholars are of opinion that by India in
this passage is meant southern Arabia. In these early notices India is
used vaguely for Eastern Parthia, Southern Arabia and even Ethiopia.
It requires considerable evidence to make it probable that at the time
of Pantaenus (second century A.D.) any one in India used the Gospel in
a Semitic language.]

[Footnote 1075: See, for the Thomas legend, Garbe, Vincent Smith,
_Early History of India_, 3rd ed. pp. 231 ff., and Philipps in _I.A._.
1903, pp. 1-15 and 145-160.]

[Footnote 1076: _Nat. Hist_. xii. 18 (41).]

[Footnote 1077: II. iv. 12. Strabo died soon after 21 A.D.]

[Footnote 1078: It is seen even in borrowed words, _e.g._ hora =
[Greek: hora]: Jyau = [Greek: Zeus]: Heli = [Greek: helios].]

[Footnote 1079: See Kanakasabhai's book, _The Tamils 1800 years ago_.]

[Footnote 1080: Harnack (_Mission und Ausbreitung des Christentums_,
II. 126) says "Dass die Thomas-Christen welche man im 16 Jahrhundert
in Indien wieder entdeckte bis ins 3 Jahrhundert hinauf