Day 22 covers all of Chapter 17, The Variety of Merits.

Last month covered the merits that accrue from understanding by faith.

In the opening of this chapter, the Buddha itemizes the many benefits accrued by those present who heard of the length of his life was so long and the gods celebrated, raining flowers and incense. Maitreya Bodhisattva reiterates these in gathas.

As Maitreya explains:

Having heard of your longevity,
They obtained these effects and rewards,
Pure, immeasurable, and without asravas.
Having heard from you
Of the duration of your life,
Living beings as many as the particles of earth
Of eight Sumeru-worlds
Aspired for unsurpassed [enlightenmenLJ.

You expounded the teachings
Immeasurable and inconceivable,
And benefited living beings
As limitless as the sky.

Sakyamuni underscores the outcome certain for those who understand by faith:

It cannot be that the good man who obtained merits [by understanding my longevity by failh even at a moment’s thought] falters in walking the Way to Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi.