金光明最勝王經疏 6.26

6.26

諸天藥叉護持品，三門分別。言來意者，學行流通有五，此第四正明持學。復有二：一舉昔：二勸今。舉昔有二：初舉他昔持、次一舉自昔持。此品勸今眾持。又釋成前〈護國品〉中能持經人及八部眾流通之行，故此品起。

"Chapter on the Protection and Upholding by Devas and Yakṣas": distinguished through three sections. Regarding the purpose of its occurrence: there are five parts to the circulation of practice and study, and this is the fourth, directly clarifying upholding and studying. Furthermore, there are two aspects: first, citing the past; second, exhorting the present. Citing the past has two parts: first, citing others' upholding in the past; next, citing one's own upholding in the past. This chapter exhorts the present assembly to uphold [the sūtra]. Furthermore, it elaborates and fulfills the practice of circulating [the sūtra] by those able to uphold the sūtra and the eight classes of beings mentioned in the previous "Chapter on Protecting the Country"; hence this chapter arises.