Commentary for Yevamot 227:7

ת"ש בן חבר כהן שרגיל לילך אצל אבי אמו כהן עם הארץ אין חוששין שמא יאכילנו תרומה טמאה מצא בידו פירות אין זקוק לו בתרומה דרבנן

that [a child is inhibited only] where he [appears to] act with his father's approval<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Why, then, should the child, where he acts in all innocence and where his father's approval is not in question, be prevented from eating of the levitically unprepared fruit? ');">²⁸</span> — But [the fact is that] R. Johanan was in doubt. When, therefore, he dealt with the one subject<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'standing here'. ');">²⁹</span> he rebutted the argument<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'thrusts', thus preventing his disciples from drawing any definite, and possibly erroneous, conclusion, ');">³⁰</span> and when he dealt with the other<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'standing here'. ');">²⁹</span> he [again] rebutted the argument.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'thrusts', thus preventing his disciples from drawing any definite, and possibly erroneous, conclusion, ');">³⁰</span>

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