Mesorat%20hashas for Megillah 18:13

כהן גדול משום איבה כהן הדיוט משום מעלין בקודש ולא מורידין רישא רבנן וסיפא ר"מ

as a high priest, so as not to create enmity, as an ordinary priest, because raise to a higher grade of holiness but we never put down to a lower. Are we then to say that the first clause [of the Mishnah] follows the Sages and the second R. Meir?

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