Reference for Gittin 74:17

אמר לך רבא רשב"ג לא הוי ידע מאי קאמרי רבנן והכי קאמר להו אי לפני יאוש קאמריתו היינו כשם אי לאחר יאוש קאמריתו כדחזקיה

— Abaye said: The case indeed is one in which [the master] has not yet given up hopes. If then [he is ransomed] as a slave he goes back to slavery to his first master. If [he is ransomed] as a free man, he is no longer enslaved either to the first master or to the second; to the second, because he ransomed him as a free man, to the first because [if people know that he is to go back to slavery] perhaps they will refrain from ransoming him.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The implication is that there is some merit in restoring the slave to freedom. ');">¹⁴</span>

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