Commentary for Avodah Zarah 120:6
אמר רב אשי מתני' נמי דיקא דתנן המטהר יינו של עובד כוכבים ונותנו ברשותו והלה כותב לו התקבלתי ממך מעות מותר אבל אם ירצה ישראל להוציאו ואין מניחו עד שיתן לו מעותיו זה היה מעשה בבית שאן ואסרו
R. Ashi said: This can also be learned by a deduction in the Mishnah which teaches: If [a Jew] prepares a non-Jew’s wine in a state of ritual purity and leaves it in [the non-Jew’s] domain, and the [non-Jew] writes for him “I have received the money from you,” then [the wine] is permitted. If, however, the Jew wished to remove it and [the non-Jew] refuses to let it go until he paid him — this actually happened in Beth-Shean and [the Rabbis] prohibited it.
Daf Shevui to Avodah Zarah
R. Ashi quotes another mishnah that proves that the wine is prohibited only if the non-Jew could take it to collect his loan. The wine in the second clause is essentially being held by the non-Jew as collateral for a loan. If the non-Jew will not let the Jew take the wine, then he has a lien on “this wine.” But if he lets him take the wine, then we can assume his lien is on other wine (or some other collateral). In this case the wine would be permitted. We will learn this mishnah in greater depth later in the chapter.
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