Reference for Bava Kamma 233:10

רב הונא בר יהודה איקלע לבי אביוני אתא לקמיה דרבא א"ל כלום מעשה בא לידך א"ל ישראל שאנסוהו עובדי כוכבים והראה ממון חבירו בא לידי וחייבתיו

and it cut through some silk in its passage, he would be exempt,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From civil liability for the silk. ');">¹⁶</span> for the outset [of the motion] was subservient to its termination, for which he is liable to capital punishment;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Into which all civil offences committed at that time merge (Keth. 31a); v. supra 192; no civil liability was therefore maintained in the case of vitiating wine by idolatrous libation which is a capital offence; cf. Sanh. VII, 4-6. ');">¹⁷</span>

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