[596] "Whoever" (*yo pana*) means: whoever, of whatever sort … "bhikkhu" means: … this is the one intended in this sense as "bhikkhu."
"United" (*samagga*) means: a Saṅgha of the same communion (samānasaṃvāsaka), standing within the same boundary (sīmā).
"Should strive for schism" (*bhedāya parakkameyya*) means: thinking, "How might these become divided, become separated, become factional?"—he seeks a faction, he binds together a following.
"Or a legal issue (adhikaraṇa) conducive to schism" means: the eighteen grounds for causing schism.
"Having taken up" (*samādāya*) means: having adopted.
"Upholding" (*paggayha*) means: he would proclaim it.
"Should persist" (*tiṭṭheyya*) means: he would not relinquish it.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.