無量壽經連義述文贊 3.164

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經曰「身坐勞苦」至「痛哉可傷」者，述云：此後、從惡生痛也。坐，亦由也受也。苦增不止，故云久大劇。業果之理更無作者，故云天道施張。造惡必彰，故自糺舉。糺，亦糾（唐由反），《決疑》云「三合繩也」。非此中意。今約也限也。糺是古體也。身當法網，故云綱紀羅網。貴賤勿不從法，故上下相應。罪者歸之，無人伴送，故云煢。忪忪者，怱也。煢，古文儝𭜿同，臣營反，獨也單也。

On the passage from the sūtra beginning "Enduring hardship on account of the body" to "how painful and lamentable": the commentary states: This is the latter part, wherein pains arise from evils. 'Sitting' (zuo) also means 'by reason of' or 'to receive'. Because suffering increases without ceasing, it says 'long, vast, and severe'. In the principle of karma and its fruition there is no other agent, so it says 'the heavenly way unfolds'. When evil is committed it must become apparent, so they 'themselves interrogate and expose'. Jiu (to examine/arrest) is also jiu (phonetically tang-you); the Jueyi says 'it is a three-strand rope'. That is not the meaning here; here it means to restrict and delimit. Jiu is the ancient graph. Because the person is caught in the legal net, it says 'the web and mesh of rules and laws'. None among the high and low fail to comply with the law, so 'superiors and inferiors correspond'. Transgressors go to it with no one accompanying them, so it says 'solitary' (qiong). Songsong means being hurried and distressed. Qiong is the same as the ancient graphs 儝 and 𭜿 (chen-ying phonetically), meaning alone and singular.