Fortunately, we need not speculate about Rav Berlin’s intention, since Mossad Harav Kook’s edition of the העמק שאלה contains as an appendix Rav Berlin’s manuscript notes to his own copy of the שאילתות (which really form the basis for a second edition of his commentaries to that work) in which he explains his rather elliptical comment at much greater length. The publisher describes these notes as follows