Commentary for Avodah Zarah 52:2
א"ל אני שונה (דברים כב, ג) לכל אבידת אחיך לרבות את המומר ואת אמרת היו מורידין סמי מכאן מומר
R. Yohanan said to him: I have been teaching “And so shall you do with every lost thing of your brother's” (Deuteronomy 22:3) that this comes to include the apostate, and you say he may be cast down. Erase [from this list] apostates!
Daf Shevui to Avodah Zarah
R. Yohanan instructs that the baraita recited in front of him be emended. R. Yohanan says that one must return a lost object to an apostate. This shows that he is “your brother.” How then could we say that he must be cast down into a pit? The baraita must therefore be emended.
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