As Simon ben Shetah insisted on a rigorous examination of the witnesses, so does our writer: as he and his party required that the perjurer should suffer the same penalty he sought to inflict on another, so our writer represents the death penalty as inflicted on the perjured elders.
perjured הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד