金剛經纂要刊定記 4.188

4.188

徵意可知。釋中我者，謂執自五蘊總相為我。人者。計我死已生天，天死為畜等故。梵語補特伽羅，此云數取趣，即是人也。眾生者。計我眾多之法相續生故。壽者。亦云壽命，計我一生壽命不斷絕故。然我是總主、人等為別，攝別歸總故言我執，由是三中皆言計我等也。然上四相，雖是經中所無，不可不了耳。

The intention of the question can be known. In the explanation: 'A self' means clinging to the general characteristic of one's own five aggregates as a self. 'A person' means conceiving that when I die, I am born in heaven, and when I die in heaven, I become an animal, and so forth. In Sanskrit, pudgala; here translated as 'continually taking rebirth in destinies' (shuququ), which is precisely a person. 'A sentient being' means conceiving that a multiplicity of phenomena continuously arise for me. 'A soul' is also called 'lifespan' (āyus), conceiving that my lifetime's lifespan is never cut off. However, the self is the overarching subject, while 'person' and so forth are distinct aspects; subsuming the distinct under the general, it is called 'clinging to a self'; hence in all three it says 'conceiving that I…' and so forth. Still, although these four characteristics are not [spelled out] in the sūtra, one must not fail to understand them.