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ויש לו בנים — לא ישא אילונית, שהיא זונה האמורה בתורה. דאזונה כהנים הוא דמפקדי וישראל לא מפקדי, משום הכי קתני כהן.
and he has children, he may not marry a sexually underdeveloped woman, as she is the zona about whom it is stated in the Torah that a priest may not marry her. It is priests who were commanded not to marry a zona, but Israelites were not commanded this. It is due to that reason that he taught the first clause of the Mishnah about a priest, even though that halakha applies equally to Israelites.
אמר רב הונא: מאי טעמא דרבי יהודה, דכתיב: ״אכלו ולא ישבעו הזנו ולא יפרצו״, כל ביאה שאין בה פירצה — אינה אלא בעילת זנות.
Rav Huna said: What is the reason for the opinion of R' Yehuda? As it is written: “And they should eat, and not have enough, they should commit harlotry, and should not increase” (Hosea 4:10). He expounds the verse as follows: Any sex that does not have the possibility to increase the population because the woman is incapable of having children, is nothing other than licentious sex.
תניא, רבי אליעזר אומר: כהן לא ישא את הקטנה. אמר ליה רב חסדא לרבה: פוק עיין בה, דלאורתא בעי לה רב הונא מינך. נפק עיין בה: רבי אליעזר סבר לה כרבי מאיר, וסבר לה כרבי יהודה.
§ It is taught in a baraita that R' Eliezer says: A priest may not marry a minor. Rav Ḥisda said to Rabba: Go and investigate this halakha, as in the evening Rav Huna will ask you the reason for R' Eliezer’s ruling. He went and investigated it, and arrived at the following conclusion: R' Eliezer holds in accordance with the opinion of R' Meir, and he also holds in accordance with the opinion of R' Yehuda.
סבר לה כרבי מאיר, דחייש למיעוטא. וסבר לה כרבי יהודה, דאמר: אילונית זונה הויא.
Rabba explains: He holds in accordance with the opinion of R' Meir, who says that one must be concerned for the minority. R' Meir does not allow one to assume that an unknown case is similar to the majority of cases. Consequently, one must take into account the possibility that a minor will turn out to be sexually underdeveloped, although this will not be true of most individuals. And he also holds in accordance with the opinion of R' Yehuda, who said that a sexually underdeveloped woman is a zona and therefore forbidden to a priest.