Commentary for Bava Kamma 82:4
ולהנך תנאי דמפקי ליה להאי בעל השור נקי לדרשה אחרינא [כדבעינן למימר קמן] הנאת עורו מנא להו
And now that the prohibition in respect both of food and of any [other] use has been derived from [the text] <i>'his flesh shall not be eaten'</i>, what additional teaching is afforded to me by [the words] <i>'The owner of the ox shall be quit'</i>? — [The prohibition of] the use of the skin. For otherwise you might have been inclined to think that it was only the flesh that had been proscribed from being used, whereas the skin should be permitted to be used; we are therefore told [that this is not the case but] that <i>'the owner of the ox shall be quit</i>.' But what of those Tannaim who employ this [text], <i>'The owner of the ox shall be quit'</i> for deriving other implications (as we will indeed have to explain <i>infra</i>);<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. pp. 236-239. ');"><sup>3</sup></span>
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