法華義疏 7.134

7.134

要前照機不堪受一化、信受二乘，然後隱法身而垂應迹，然後為說小法，即是次第。

It is necessary to first discern that the capacity cannot receive the conversion of the one [vehicle] but faithfully accepts the two vehicles; only then does one conceal the dharmakāya and manifest the responsive traces, and only then preach the small Dharma for them. That is the proper sequence.