Commentary for Bava Metzia 189:8

איבעית אימא קסבר לסטים מזויין גזלן הוא

is a greater severity. Alternatively, he maintains that an armed robber is a gazlan.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'robber', who robs by open violence and is not subject to the twofold payment (v. B.K. 79b), as distinct from gannab, a thief who steals in secret. Consequently, the punishment of twofold payment does not apply to a paid bailee who falsely pleads an attack by an armed robber. ');">⁸</span>

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