US-P18.125ab ।US-P18.125cd ॥
In plain words
If the removal of what is not the Self is claimed to come solely through the instrument of words, then because the witness remains unestablished, absolute nothingness is all that follows.
Close to the Sanskrit
If cessation is spoken here by verbal testimony alone, then, due to the non-establishment of the witness, absolute voidness inevitably follows.