大方廣佛華嚴經疏 29.4

29.4

四十八施僮僕。少美曰僮，以擬瞻侍。執守曰僕，以備勞役。然不放之從良而施與人，還令成僕者，以菩薩行海無善不修，若唯放從良，有三義缺：一行海不具、二彼僕本願不滿、三佛果缺此應機之德。餘可知。

Forty-eight: Giving servants and attendants. A youthful and handsome one is called a page (tong), meant for attending and serving. One who performs chores is called a servant (pu), serving for manual labor. Yet, not releasing them to become free commoners but instead giving them to others so that they remain servants is because in the ocean of bodhisattva practices there is no good that is not cultivated; if one merely released them to become free, there would be a lack in three respects: 1. the ocean of practices would be incomplete; 2. the original vows of those servants would not be fulfilled; 3. the Buddha-fruit would lack this virtue of responding to capacities. The rest can be understood.