Commentary for Menachot 161:9

אמר ליה מאן לימא לן דאמר רבי יוחנן אם שיירו משוייר דלמא אם שיירו אינו משוייר והיינו טעמא דרבי יוחנן דאמר אדם מתכפר בשבח הקדש

- [This is no remedy] for there would then be a curtailment of the eating of the forty cakes.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' According to another reading: of the four cakes. It is obviously necessary to give the priest eight cakes for there may be here two thank-offerings; but the priest, thinking that he is not entitled to more than four of them, for there may be here only one thank-offering, would only eat four and leave four; the owners, on the other hand, would not eat the remaining four cakes, and they would therefore be destroyed unnecessarily. Another interpretation: Clearly eight cakes are given to the priests, but it is possible that only four of them are holy; now if it happens that the priests are unable to consume all the eight cakes that same day. it may be that the remaining cakes, which have to be burnt, are the hallowed cakes, so that by giving the priests non-hallowed cakes to eat it may result in bringing hallowed cakes to destruction.');">⁸</span> R'Ashi said to R'Kahana, If [the law] is in accordance with R'Johanan who ruled<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Yeb. 78a, Tem. 25a.');">⁹</span>

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