金剛經纂要刊定記 2.33

2.33

"Precisely the sūtra", etc., points to the sūtra. In accordance with the sūtra, after answering the three questions, it severs [doubts] sequentially, arising and resuming in an interlocking chain; thus it says, "clause by clause up to twenty-seven". The terms "prevent" and "sever" generally carry two meanings: First, where Subhūti states his doubts in the sūtra, these are manifest activities—namely, the second, eleventh, and nineteenth; the remainder, lacking words of questioning, are all seeds. Second, at that time they were all manifest activities, but with respect to later generations they are collectively called seeds. In this sense, when manifest activity is severed, seeds are prevented. Between these two meanings, the latter is more pressing; hence, regarding the twenty-seven doubts, it always says "sever" and does not say "prevent".