The Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek that is translated as some form of “from long ago” in these verses in English is translated in the widely-used Mandarin Chinese Union Version with a historical 4-character Chinese idiom: zìgǔ yǐlái (自古以來 / 自古以来), literally “from old times it has come.”
Verse: Acts 15:17
" ὅπως ἂν ἐκζητήσωσιν οἱ κατάλοιποι τῶν ἀνθρώπων τὸν κύριον"
" καὶ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη ἐφ᾽ οὓς ἐπικέκληται τὸ ὄνομά μου ἐπ᾽ αὐτούς,"
" λέγει κύριος ποιῶν ταῦτα"
17so that all other peoples may seek the Lord—
even all the gentiles over whom my name has been called.
Thus says the Lord, who has been making these things
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