Mesorat%20hashas for Sanhedrin 150:6

אמר אביי הכי קאמר מנין לעשות שלשה דורות למעלה כשלשה דורות למטה נאמר למטה זמה ונאמר למעלה זמה מה למטה שלשה דורות אף למעלה שלשה דורות

Again, if it means that his father-in-law's mother and his mother-in-law's mother are as his mother-in-law: then instead of 'the lower is as the upper', the Tanna should have said 'the upper is as the lower'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For the older generation is always referred to as the upper. ');">⁶</span>

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