起信論註 1.17

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論若離妄心實無可空故　（述曰。此返結釋疑也。恐明說空便成斷滅故。此釋云。遮諸念相假說為空。若不遮妄不說空。故真既不空故非斷滅。是故顯真性空而不空）。

Treatise: If one is free from the deluded mind, there is in reality nothing to be emptied. (Commentary: This summarizes in reverse to resolve doubts. Fearing that plainly speaking of emptiness would result in annihilationism, this explains: it is by negating all marks of thought that it is provisionally spoken of as empty; if one does not negate delusion, emptiness is not spoken of. Since the real is not empty, it is not annihilated. Therefore, it reveals that the true nature is empty yet not empty.)