Quoting%20commentary for Yoma 116:15

ואמאי לא עביד משום דכתיב ויצא אל המזבח עד דנפיק מכוליה מזבח וכיון דיהיב בההוא קרן הדר אתי לההוא קרן דאיחייב למיתב ברישא

At the place where R'Akiba would have him start, there R'Jose the Galilean would have him stop. All agree at any rate that he does not start at the point he first comes to.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Coming from the west, he first reaches one of the western horns of the altar (v. previous note) , yet does not commence with it.');">¹⁴</span> What is the reason? Said Samuel: Scripture said: And he shall go out unto the altar, i.e., only after he has gone over the whole altar. But according to R'Akiba he ought to go around it to the right.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. p. 273, n. 5.');">¹⁵</span> Shall we say [then] that they are disputing a teaching of Rami B'Ezekiel? For Rami B'Ezekiel said: Concerning the sea<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The water reservoir in the Temple of Solomon.');">¹⁶</span> which Solomon made, [Scripture states]: It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was set upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I Kings VII, 25.');">¹⁷</span> Hence you are taught that all the turns you make [in the Temple] must be to the right, i.e., eastward;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is derived from the order in which the sides are enumerated; the phrase 'eastward' does not apply here but is taken from the passage where this principle is originally quoted in connection with the ramp. v. supra ');">¹⁸</span> one Master [R'Jose the Galilean] agreeing with Rami B'Ezekiel, the other Master [R'Akiba] disagreeing? - No, all agree with the view of Rami B'Ezekiel and the matter of dispute here is, rather, this: One Master holds that [the regulations] within<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The inner altar.');">¹⁹</span> are inferred from [those] without,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Sea of Solomon.');">²⁰</span> the other Master holding we do not infer [the regulations] 'within' from [those] 'without'. But according to R'Akiba, granted that he does not infer 'within' from 'without', let him be permitted to do it one way if he so chooses, or the other way if he so chooses?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Either to the right or to the left.');">²¹</span> - R'Akiba will tell you: As far as de jure regulation is concerned he ought to start at the horn to which he had come first, for Resh Lakish has said: One must not forego the occasion for performing a religious act;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra 33a.');">²²</span> and the reason why he does not do so is because Scripture said: 'And he shall go out unto the altar,' i.e., until he has gone outside the whole altar. Therefore as soon as he has sprinkled the blood on this horn, he returns to the horn with which he should have started from the beginning.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. p. 273. n. 5.');">²³</span>

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