Commentary for Ketubot 59:2

הניחא לר' ישבב אי לאפוקי מטעמא דר' סימאי קאתי שפיר אלא אי טעמא דנפשיה קאמר כל שאין לו ביאה בישראל הולד ממזר ואפי' חייבי עשה מאי בינייהו

That is all right if R. Yeshebav [by his statement] only came to exclude the view of R. Simai. But if his statement was his own, whenever the marriage is forbidden in Israel, the child [of such a marriage] is a mamzer even in the case of a positive commandment. What is [then] the difference between them?

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