Mesorat%20hashas for Bava Metzia 191:1

רבא סבר לה כרבי יונתן ומתרץ לקראי כרבי יונתן דתני' (שמות כב, יד) אם בעליו עמו לא ישלם משמע דאיתיה בתרוייהו ומשמע נמי דכי איתיה בחדא וליתיה בחדא פטור

'Raba, agreeing with R. Jonathan, interprets them on the basis of his views': 'The owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good': this may imply that he is in his service either on both occasions or on one; in both cases he is free from responsibility. On the other hand, it is also written, 'But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good'; this too implies whether he is not with him on both occasions or only on one, he is liable. [Hence this contradiction is] to teach you: If he was with him at the time of the loan, he need not have been with him at the time of the injury or death; but though he were with him at the time of the injury or death he must also have been with him when the loan was made.

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