Commentary for Sotah 4:7
איצטריך סד"א סוטה שאני דרגלים לדבר שהרי קינא לה ונסתרה ליתהימן בה עד אחד
But if there be not even one witness against her, why should she then be prohibited [to her husband]? — [The verse: One witness etc.] is necessary, because otherwise it might have occurred to me to suppose that 'there be no witness against her' means, he is not believed against her. He is not believed against her! What, then, [does the text] want unless there are two witnesses?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' What is the purpose of the words if the meaning of there be no witness indicates only one and that his evidence is not accepted? ');"><sup>7</sup></span>
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