Mesorat%20hashas for Arakhin 12:25

<big><strong>מתני׳</strong></big> הגוסס והיוצא ליהרג גלא נידר ולא נערך

But what will R'Hanina B'Akabya who holds him fit to be made the subject of a valuation 'because his price is fixed', do with 'No devoted thing, etc.'? - He needs this in accord with what was taught: R'Ishmael the son of R'Johanan B'Beroka said: Since we find that those to be put to death by the hand of heaven can offer a monetary expiation and thereby obtain atonement, as it is said: If there be laid on him a ransom,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXI, 30. As is evident from Sanh. 15b, in the case of the goring ox, the owner incurs death through the decree of heaven for his negligence, and in such a case the evil decree may be averted by a monetary compensation or expiation. The word 'devoted' is interpreted as devoted by human beings, hence 'devoted to death' by human beings. Such interpretation removed the possibility of any devoted thing being saved from execution by compensation-payment, for, No devoted thing shall be redeemed (from death by payment) .');">¹¹</span>

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