Tosefta for Bekhorot 61:7
ר"ש ור' יהושע בן קרחה אומרים
But R'Simeon and R'Joshua B'Karha say: Both in the first case as in the other, they may be received because of what is said, Turn, O backsliding children.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Jer. III, 14.');"><sup>3</sup></span>
Tosefta Demai
Originally they (i.e., the Sages) said that [as to] a chaver that becomes a tax collector, we force him out of the chaverut [presumably, permanently], and then they reconsidered to say, that as long as he is a tax collector, he is not [even considered] trustworthy, [but once he] separates from [his office of] tax collector, behold, he is [considered] trustworthy. (Cf. Bekh. 31a:4.)
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