Commentary for Sanhedrin 151:17

תני אבוה דרבי אבין לפי שלא למדנו לבתו מאנוסתו הוצרך הכתוב לומר (ויקרא כא, ט) ובת איש כהן

But can punishment be imposed as the result of an ad majus conclusion? — The argument merely illumines the prohibition.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., does not add the prohibition of another person, but shews that when Scripture (in Lev. XVIII, 10) interdicted his daughter's daughter, it meant that the daughter relationship in general is forbidden. ');">¹⁶</span>

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