Mesorat%20hashas for Avodah Zarah 54:4

ומנא תימרא דלחיי שעה לא חיישינן דכתיב (מלכים ב ז, ד) אם אמרנו נבוא העיר והרעב בעיר ומתנו שם והאיכא חיי שעה אלא לאו לחיי שעה לא חיישינן

How do you know that the life of the hour is not to be considered? As it is written, “If we say: we will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there” (II Kings 7:4). Now is there not the life of the hour [which they might lose]! This implies that the life of the hour is not to be considered.

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