法華經義記 2.22

2.22

「諸善男子我於過去曾見此瑞」，此下第二自言曾見瑞相之事，然此意小復分明略答。就此曾見中亦有二者：第一正敘曾見，第二從「欲令眾生咸得聞知」竟「故現斯瑞」以來，此明文殊非唯直曾見而已，亦復深得曾見之意，欲明如來必應說同歸之理、莫二之教，然則深得佛心、妙知聖意也。又釋前明引古，後明證今也。

"Good men, in the past I have seen this auspicious sign": from here downwards, the second part is his stating on his own the matter of having seen the auspicious signs in the past; yet this import answers briefly with somewhat greater clarity. Within this [matter of] what he has seen before there are also two parts: first, he directly recounts what he has seen before; second, from "wishing to cause sentient beings all to hear and know" to "hence he manifests this auspicious sign", this clarifies that Mañjuśrī did not merely see it before, but also deeply grasped the import of what he had seen before, wishing to clarify that the Tathāgata must certainly preach the principle of identical return and the teaching without duality; thus he deeply grasped the Buddha's mind and subtly knew the sagely intent. Another explanation: the former clarifies citing the past, and the latter clarifies verifying the present.