Commentary for Sanhedrin 167:7

ונילף חילול חילול מנותר מה להלן בכרת אף כאן בכרת

Then the law is derived from the use of 'profanation' here and in the case of <i>terumah</i>; just as there the penalty is death, so here too. But let it rather be derived from nothar; just as there the penalty is extinction, so here too? — It is more reasonable to make the deduction from <i>terumah</i>, for thus bodily unfitness is derived from bodily unfitness.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. p. 552, n. 1. ');">⁵</span>

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