In this way this sūtra is heard by a fiftieth person.

The purpose of taking up the last person is [to say] that most of the people, in the beginning, hearing in person the wisdom preaching, tend to accept it with deep pleasure, but if it is transmitted to other people, especially when it comes to the last person, their pleasure will be attenuated, and those with attenuated pleasure likewise will have their merits lessened. [Yet,] this time, it turns out that this is not the case; it is suggested that his happiness and recompense are limitless. How much the more would be [the happiness and recompense of] those who were present in the very first audience sitting and hearing firsthand [the Buddha preaching the sūtra! It much also be deep!