BABA METZIA (Fol. 19) Rabba b. b. Chana lost in college a document of divorce [which he had to deliver to the woman as a messenger], and when it was found he said: "If you require signs to identify the document, I have them; and if I am trusted by you to recognize it, then I recognize it." When it was returned to him he said: "I cannot tell whether they did it on account of the signs, hence they hold that signs is a Biblical law; or it was returned only by recognition, in which only a scholar is trusted, but not a common man."
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