This chapter is called Kanji-hon in Japanese. Kan means to exhort or urge others to the teaching, while ji means to hold or to receive and keep. This chapter relates how the virtuous bodhisattvas, who had well understood through the Buddha’s preaching hitherto how precious the teaching of the Wonderful Law-Flower Sutra is, made a firm resolution to spread abroad this sutra after the extinction of the Buddha, no matter what difficulties they might encounter, and how they vowed to practice it in the presence of the Buddha. One must be firmly resolved to preach the teaching oneself before one exhorts others to it. It is noteworthy that the title, “Exhortation to Hold Firm,” does not refer to the exhortation of others to the teaching but to the resolution and vow of the bodhisattvas themselves. This is an essential point that we must not overlook.