[47] If it should occur to you thus: "These venerables agree as to the meaning but differ as to the phrasing," then you should approach whichever bhikkhu among them you consider the more amenable to speech and say to him: "The venerables agree as to the meaning but differ as to the phrasing. Let the venerables understand this: it is in just this way that they agree as to the meaning but differ as to the phrasing. But the phrasing is a trifling matter; let the venerables not fall into a dispute over a trifle." Then you should approach whichever bhikkhu among the bhikkhus siding with the other party you consider the more amenable to speech and say to him: "The venerables agree as to the meaning but differ as to the phrasing. Let the venerables understand this: they agree as to the meaning but differ as to the phrasing. But the phrasing is a trifling matter; let the venerables not fall into a dispute over a trifle." Thus what has been rightly grasped should be borne in mind as rightly grasped, and what has been wrongly grasped should be borne in mind as wrongly grasped. Having borne in mind what has been rightly grasped as rightly grasped and what has been wrongly grasped as wrongly grasped, whatever is Dhamma, whatever is Vinaya (discipline), that should be spoken.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.