Jewish%20thought for Bava Metzia 169:5

ואפ"ה יסורי דר' אלעזר בר' שמעון עדיפי מדרבי דאילו ר"א בר"ש מאהבה באו ומאהבה הלכו דרבי ע"י מעשה באו וע"י מעשה הלכו

But how does this prove it: perhaps Jonathan the son of Saul [spoke thus] because he saw that the people were flocking to David? The Bene Bathyra too, because they saw that Hillel was their superior [in learning]? But R. Simeon b. Gamaliel was certainly very modest.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., though the action of the other two might be explained away as not due to humility, that of R. Simeon b. Gamaliel could not. ');">⁵</span>

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