Commentary for Bava Metzia 142:13

אנן לדידהו נמי מה אתם בני ברית קאמר אלא הא דרב אשי ברותא היא

If so, why state it? — But, said R. Papa, it means, e.g., that he [the heathen] took it [from the first creditor] and personally gave it [to the second]. Yet even so, why state it? — I might think that the heathen himself, in acting so, transfers the money pursuant to the wish of the Israelite,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., that he is merely the means of the actual loan from one Jew to another. ');">¹²</span>

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