說無垢稱經疏 2.34

2.34

讚曰：此顯德大妙逾心議殊勝功德。稱謂言說。量謂心度。謂大菩薩聖德廣大，微妙難知，言說不可稱、情度不可量，非七地已前說思所及，故非稱量之境界也。此以下句釋於上句，由過彼境故，言不可稱量。八地以上，剎那剎那轉增進故，初一剎那過前二劫所修一倍，二念二倍，乃至上倍過前無數，故非七地以前稱量。舊經脫「稱」，義仍難解。

Commentary: This reveals the superior virtue that their virtue is vast, wondrous, and beyond mental deliberation. 'Stating' (cheng) refers to verbal expression. 'Measuring' (liang) refers to mental calculation. This means the holy virtues of the great bodhisattvas are broad, vast, wondrous, and difficult to comprehend: they cannot be stated in words, nor can they be measured by mental deliberation; they are beyond the reach of speech and thought prior to the seventh ground, and hence are not an object of stating and measuring. This lower phrase explains the upper phrase: because they surpass that realm, they are said to be 'immeasurable.' On the eighth ground and above, they advance further from moment to moment; the initial single moment doubles what was cultivated in the previous two eons, two moments quadruple it, and so on until the multiples exceed the past countless times, so they cannot be measured by those prior to the seventh ground. The older sūtra omitted 'stating' (cheng), so the meaning was still difficult to understand.