[1101] "One should not take the wrong course of fear (bhayāgati)": when one takes the wrong course of fear, how does one take the wrong course of fear? Here someone [thinks]: "This person relies on rough ground, or relies on a thicket, or relies on the powerful; he is violent and harsh; he will cause danger to my life or danger to the holy life (brahmacariya)," and, frightened through fear of him, he declares what is not Dhamma to be Dhamma; he declares Dhamma to be not Dhamma; … he declares a grave offense (āpatti) to be an offense that is not grave; he declares an offense that is not grave to be a grave offense. Taking the wrong course of fear on these eighteen grounds, he is practicing for the harm of the manyfolk, for the unhappiness of the manyfolk, for the ruin of many people, for the harm and suffering of devas and human beings. Taking the wrong course of fear on these eighteen grounds, he maintains himself dug up and destroyed; he is blameworthy and censurable by the wise; and he generates much demerit. One taking the wrong course of fear takes the wrong course of fear thus.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.