妙法蓮華經文句 2.48

2.48

多知識眾竟，次列少知識眾者。「復有學無學二千人俱」，但舉位明數而不歎德，呼此為少知識眾耳。聖與凡絕交，亦不分別多識少識，特以希高慕遠者以多識引之，藏名隱德退讓者以少識引之，隨順眾生故有若干，不可以多少之迹失其本。

The assembly of those widely known having been concluded, next is listed the assembly of those less widely known: "There were also two thousand people, both trainees and non-trainees, together with them." Merely indicating their status and making clear their number without praising their virtues, this is termed the assembly of those less widely known. The noble and the ordinary have severed relations; neither do they discriminate between being widely known and less known. It is solely to guide those who aspire to the high and admire the distant that they are guided through those widely known, and to guide those who conceal their name, hide their virtues, and step back that they are guided through those less known. In accordance with sentient beings, there are various [distinctions]; one must not, on account of the traces of more and less, lose sight of their origin.