肇論新疏 2.18

2.18

大秦天王者，道契百王之端（首）、德洽（沾）千載之下，游刃萬機（事）、弘道終日，信季（末）俗蒼生之所天、釋迦遺法之所仗也。

The Heavenly King of the Great Qin: his Way harmonizes with the foremost of the hundred kings, his virtue bathes down across a thousand years; deftly maneuvering through myriad affairs, he propagates the Way the entire day; he is truly what the populace of this decadent age looks up to as heaven, and what the bequeathed Dharma of Śākyamuni relies upon.