Commentary for Sanhedrin 67:13

היכי דמי טעם אחד משני מקראות אמר רב זביד כדתנן מזבח מקדש את הראוי לו

But why [record] the grounds of the defenders; surely so that should they discover different arguments for conviction, they may not be heeded?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Unless they erred in a law accepted even by the Sadducees. Hence the necessity of recording their grounds for acquittal in order to be able to discover the nature of the error. This proves that an opinion for conviction may not be reversed even at the time of the promulgation of the decision. ');">²³</span> — No, it is lest two judges draw a single argument from two Scriptural verses, as R. Assi asked R. Johanan: What if two [judges] derive the same argument from two verses? — He answered: They are only counted as one.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since no two verses are intended to teach one and the same thing, one of the judges must have erred. ');">²⁴</span>

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