The fifth line of Inner Truth (King Wen 61) is drawn as yang, the numeral nine in the old divination manuals. James Legge's translation renders the line as perfectly sincere, and linking others to himself, no error. The image sits inside a hexagram whose judgment as a whole concerns reaching even pigs and fish, good fortune, advantage in crossing the great stream, advantage in being firm and correct, and this line supplies one stage of that larger reading rather than a complete statement on its own.
Structurally the line stands at the middle place of the upper trigram Xun, wind in Legge's readings of the eight trigrams, while the lower trigram of the hexagram is Dui, lake in the same traditional set of images. The Great Symbolism of the hexagram reads wind above the waters of a marsh; the superior man deliberates carefully over criminal cases and delays the infliction of death, and the fifth line takes its place inside that combined picture of Dui below and Xun above.
Read on its own the line neither opens nor closes the hexagram's argument. It marks the point where Xun is either forming (in the lower trigram) or completing itself (in the upper), and later interpreters treat its image, The Perfectly Sincere, as the concrete case through which the hexagram's abstract judgment becomes visible in a single situation rather than a general principle.