Commentary for Pesachim 37:2

ואי ס"ד סבר כר"ע ניתני נמי רביעי בתרומה וחמישי בקודש

'While a fourth [is learned] 'a minori, as we have stated. Now, if you should think that he holds as R'Akiba, let him also state a fourth in the case of terumah and a fifth in the case of sacred food.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For if he holds that there is a third in the case of hullin, he can deduce these a minori. Thus: if a tebul yom (v. Glos.) . though permitted to eat hullin, is unfit to eat terumah, then surely a third, which is unfit in the case of hullin, creates a fourth in the case of terumah. And we cannot defile this by the principle that it is sufficient for what is learned a minori to be like its premise, for in that case the deduction is superfluous, for a third in the case of terumah is learned direct from Scripture from the same source whence we learn a third in the case of hullin (v. supra 18a) . Hence the deduction a minori must be in respect of a fourth, while a fifth would then follow on the same lines from one who lacks atonement.');">³</span>

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