Commentary for Sanhedrin 80:8

הניחא לרבנן דאמרי סקילה חמורה אלא לרבי שמעון דאמר שריפה חמורה מאי איכא למימר

for otherwise, it [the deduction] could be refuted.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As shown above. It is a principle of exegesis that if the two terms of the analogy are not altogether similar the deduction of the gezerah shawah is not valid. V. also p. 363, n. 3. ');">¹⁵</span> And it is truly free: since Scripture could have read,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' With reference to the Zomemim. ');">¹⁶</span>

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