Visuddhimagga XVI-72

 Nibbānasseva aṇuādīnampi niccabhāvāpattīti ce. 

[PTS 509]（问）（外道的）微（自性、神我、时）等的常性，是否如得涅盘的常性一样？

Ñ(XVI,72): [Q.9.] Then it follows that nibbana, too, has the kind of permanence [claimed] of the atom and so on.

Na, hetuno abhāvā. 

（答）不然，因为（彼等的常）无有因故。

Ñ: [A.] That is not so. Because of the absence of any cause [that brings about its arising].

Nibbānassa niccattā te niccāti ce. 

（问）是否因为涅盘常故，而彼（微）等是常？

Ñ: [Q.10.] Because nibbana has permanence, then, these [that is, the atom, etc.] are permanent as well.

Na, hetulakkhaṇassa anupapattito. 

（答）不然，因为因相不得故。

Ñ: [A.] That is not so. Because [in that proposition] the characteristic of [logical] cause does not arise. [In other words, to say that nibbana is permanent is not to assert a reason why the atom, etc., should be permanent.]

Niccā uppādādīnaṃ abhāvato nibbānaṃ viyāti ce. 

（问）（微等）是否如涅盘非有生起等故为常？

Ñ: [Q.11.] Then they are permanent because of the absence of their arising, as nibbana is.

Na, aṇuādīnaṃ asiddhattā.

（答）不然，因为微等不是成就之故。

Ñ: [A.] That is not so. Because the atom and so on have not been established as facts.