Commentary for Zevachim 60:4

כי פליגי דאמר תמורת עולה תמורת שלמים רבי מאיר סבר מדהוה ליה למימר תמורת עולה ושלמים ואמר תמורת עולה תמורת שלמים שמע מינה מיהדר קא הדר ביה

- Had he declared, 'A substitute for a burnt-offering and a peace-offering,' I might have interpreted it, Half as a substitute for a burnt-offering and half as a substitute for a peace-offering;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In which case it could not be sacrificed at all.');">⁸</span> therefore he declared, 'A substitute for a burnt-offering, a substitute for a peace-offerings,' to intimate that the whole should be a burnt-offering and the whole should be a peace-offerings!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Erroneously thinking that then the animal itself could be offered (presumably, as whichever sacrifice he desired, when he actually came to sacrifice it) . - Thus on the present interpretation R. Meir too does not disagree with R. Jose that you cannot regard only a man's first statement, which contradicts R. Dimi.');">⁹</span> - Said he [R'Dimi] to him [Abaye]: He [Rabbah B'Bar Hanah] said that they do not disagree, but I maintain that they do disagree.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Precisely on the point whether a man's first statement only is to be regarded.');">¹⁰</span>

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