Commentary for Shevuot 94:7

והחנוני על פינקסו כו': תניא אמר רבי טורח שבועה זו למה א"ל ר' חייא (בר אבא) תנינא שניהם נשבעין ונוטלין מבעל הבית

In the School of R'Ishmael it was taught: The servant of a King is like a King.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Euphrates, servant of the Holy Land, is great like the Holy Land itself.');">¹³</span> AND THE SHOPKEEPER WITH HIS ACCOUNT BOOK, etc. It was taught: Rabbi said: What is the object of troubling with this oath?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For there is bound to be one false oath: the shopkeeper swears he gave the workman small change to the value of a sela as instructed, and the workman swears he has not received it; and both claim from the employer, and are paid. Rabbi does not hold that both shall swear; but he does not explain whether he agrees with Ben Nannus that both are paid without an oath, or that the workman alone takes an oath that he has not been paid by the shopkeeper, and he is paid by the shopkeeper, so that the shopkeeper loses (if he has really paid him once) ; and it is right that he should lose, for he ought to have paid the workman in the presence of witnesses.');">¹⁴</span>

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