俱舍論疏 5.147

5.147

論「彼經如聲至不可例彼」，外人難也。前文云「謂在非想非非想」，不言如非非想也。後文言「如梵眾天」。如聲是顯譬喻義也。如梵眾天，餘天亦爾。可言舉初顯後。彼無如聲，何得言舉後顯初？

The treatise says: "The word 'like' in that sūtra, up to: cannot be compared to that." The opponent objects. The earlier text says "namely, those in neither-perception-nor-non-perception"; it does not say "like neither-perception-nor-non-perception." The later text says "like the Brahmapāriṣadya devas." The word 'like' conveys the sense of an analogy. Just as with the Brahmapāriṣadya devas, the other devas are likewise. One can say that it mentions the first to reveal the subsequent. But that passage has no word 'like'; how can one say that it mentions the last to reveal the first?