Commentary for Yevamot 155:3

הרי מחזיר גרושתו דאי להיתרא וכתביה התם משום עיקר איסורא הוא דכתביה

it would not have written of a 'when' [if it led] to permissibility.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The third generation may enter (ibid.). ');">⁹</span> Behold the case of the man who remarried his divorced wife,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' After she had been married to another man (v. Deut. XXIV, 1ff). ');">¹⁰</span> which involves a 'when' [leading] to a permitted act<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The children of such a marriage, as deduced from Deut. XXIV, 4, are eligible. (Kid. 77a and supra 11b). ');">¹¹</span> and yet did Scripture write of it! — In that case it was written mainly for the purpose of the original prohibition.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The ineligibility of the woman herself. The eligibility of her children is only indirectly arrived at by a deduction. ');">¹²</span>

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