妙法蓮華經玄義 4.140

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三、明信解位者，即是信行人，入修道，轉名信解人也。鈍根憑信，進發真解，故名信解。是人證果有三，謂三果（云云）。證初果者，第十六道，比智相應，即證須陀洹。須陀洹，此翻修習無漏。《成論》明：「猶是見道數人」明證果即入修道，用此明修習無漏義便。若見道所斷，略言三結盡，廣說八十八使盡。七生在，終不至八（云云）。

3. Clarifying the stage of the faith-liberated: this is the follower by faith who enters the path of cultivation and changes names to become a faith-liberated person. A dull-faculty person relies on faith and progresses to produce true understanding; hence they are called faith-liberated. This person's realization of fruits has three kinds, namely the three fruits, and so forth. Those who realize the first fruit, at the sixteenth path, corresponding to subsequent knowledge, immediately realize srotāpanna. Srotāpanna translates as 'practicing the outflow-free.' The Tattvasiddhi explains: 'This is still an individual counted in the path of seeing'; explaining that realizing the fruit is immediately entering the path of cultivation serves well to clarify the meaning of practicing the outflow-free. In terms of what is severed by the path of seeing, briefly stated, the three fetters are exhausted; extensively stated, the eighty-eight entanglements are exhausted. Seven lives remain, and they will never reach an eighth, and so forth.