法華文句記 7.32

7.32

「胤」者，嗣也、繼也。「若身子受決」至「不斷」者，驗知授記為引物機，權實皆然，故云「後來眾生」等也。更修淨土與物結緣，身子成時開權顯實，則佛種不斷於彼方，機緣成熟於其土，其中亦有種在釋迦、脫歸身子，故須此會彰灼發言。「若身子無可化」下，反以無釋有。若身子自無成佛之機，則身子所化安得成耶？故以此顯今令有寄也。《經》言「終沒」者，指涅槃時也。

"Yin" (lineage) means to succeed and to continue. From "If Śāriputra receives the prediction" to "not cut off": this verifies that conferring the prediction is to guide the capacities of living beings, which is true for both the provisional and the real; hence it says "future living beings" and so forth. Further cultivating a pure land to form bonds with living beings, when Śāriputra achieves [buddhahood] and opens the provisional and reveals the real, then the buddha-seed will not be cut off in that direction, and conditions of capacity will ripen in that land. Among them there are also those who were seeded under Śākyamuni and whose liberation returns to Śāriputra; therefore it was necessary in this assembly to speak with manifest clarity. Under "If Śāriputra had no one to transform," it conversely uses nonexistence to explain existence. If Śāriputra himself had no capacity to achieve buddhahood, then how could those transformed by Śāriputra achieve it? Therefore, this is used to show that now [the Dharma] is made to have a lodgment. Where the sūtra says "finally pass away," it refers to the time of nirvāṇa.