本文使用「經典辨讀」來詮釋由宣教士理雅各透過翻譯中國的經典（六藝）而產生的語言間的交流。「經典辨讀」可被界定為：1.「經典辨讀」是一種與他者尋求智慧的約定，它作為對於苦難世界的吶喊的聯合回應，而對所有的人、文化、宗教、學科、藝術、媒介和生活領域採開放的態度。他是一種許多聲音的約定，沒有權威的主流觀點或本地的說話者，沒有人完全擁有經典的最終意義。2.「經典辨讀」是一種跨界的崇拜儀式，上帝的臨在可在其中作不同的界定。它的目的是讓這種深刻的辨讀公開化，而且沒有一種宗教傳統是沒有深刻的辨讀的。3.「經典辨讀」不僅幫助我們更深刻地理解他人，並且具有能夠幫助我理解我們的經典和傳統的潛力。「經典辨讀」提供我們一種新的方式來考量理雅各的翻譯，特別是處理東西方交流的方式。本論文認為，理雅各的宗教敏感性使他能夠看到文本的更深層含意。本文以討論另一個作為「經典辨讀」的翻譯例子作結束。

This article makes use of “scriptural reasoning” in order to interpret the interchange between languages through the translation of the “Chinese classics” (Liu yi ) by the missionary James Legge. Scriptural reasoning may be defined as: 1. Scriptural Reasoning is a wisdomseeking engagement with diverse others, which is open to all people, cultures, religions, disciplines, arts, media and sphere of life, as a joint response to the cries of a suffering world. It is an engagement with many voices, without authoritative overviews or native speakers, where nobody exclusively owns the final meaning of the scripture. 2. Scriptural Reasoning is a boundary-crossing liturgy, in which the presence of God might be variously identified. Its purpose is to make this deep reasoning public, and there are no religious traditions to speak of without deep reasoning. 3. Scriptural Reasoning helps us not only gain a better understanding of others, but also has the potentiality of helping us gain a better understanding of our own scripture and tradition. Scriptural reasoning offers us a new way of considering Legge’s translation, particularly as a way of dealing with the interaction between East and West. This paper argues that Legge’s religious sensibilities enabled him to see deeper senses of the texts. The article closes with a discussion of another instance of translation as “scriptural reasoning,” this time by engaging with some elements of the work of Slavoj Žižek.