None of the cities of escape etc. I do not know where he takes this from, as the Gemara makes no mention save alone of Jerusalem, but all cities of escape the tribes gave from their allocations.¹

footnotes: ¹ Maimonides maintains that, because they gave it from their own allocations and were not set aside for that particular purpose, the Verse of, "Within any of thy gates" can not be applied to them. C.G.

A single tribunal should not make etc. All this is faulty. Ever must three cities not be made seduced cities, either by one tribunal or by three, either in one place or indistant places, save only in Judah and Galil.¹

footnotes: ¹ Maimonides decides that Rabbi Johanan and Rabbi Simeon Ben Lakish differ only in cities near one another and not in cities far from one another (Sanhedrin, 16b), and thereupon rests his conclusion of the matter. C.G.

Thereafter two etc. It is well that repentance would help them, but I have not found that repentance should be of value after a warning and after the act was committed.¹

footnotes: ¹ Maimonides does not maintain that the two scholars are to give each and every inhabitant a warning. C.G.

Devoted things of the altar etc. I know not why it is burned, being spoil of heaven no disqualification could be applicable to it.¹

footnotes: ¹ The English version of this paragraph is the correct retort to RABD. Things inanimate are burned, which is the manner in which it is destroyed, and does not at all apply to the first half of the sentence. G.