Commentary for Avodah Zarah 117:7

על בניהם שהם ממזרים ר' יוחנן לטעמיה דא"ר יוחנן לעולם אינו גר עד שימול ויטבול וכיון דלא טביל עובד כוכבים הוא ואמר רבה בר בר חנה א"ר יוחנן עובד כוכבים ועבד הבא על בת ישראל הולד ממזר

[He decreed] that their children were mamzerim. R. Yohanan followed his own opinion; for R. Yohanan said: [A Gentile] is never to be considered a convert until he is both circumcised and immersed, and since he has not undergone immersion he is a non-Jew. And Rabbah b. Bar Hanah has said in the name of R. Yohanan: If a non-Jew or a slave has intercourse with an Israelite woman, the child is a mamzer.

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