But none is lashed etc. This was not decided so in the Gemara, save according to Rabbi Judah who maintains that for violating a prohibitive wherein there is no act one is lashed; but the law is not decided as he contends, but according to the contention of Rabbi Johanan who follows Rabbi Jesse the Galilian, who maintains that for violating any prohibitive in the Torah when there was no act, no lashes is inflicted etc. but not for taking oath or pronouncing a vow.¹

footnotes: ¹ Perhaps Maimonides contends that, seeing that the Torah charged to inflict punishment upon one who swears falsely by the name of God, the same punishment should be inflicted upon one swearing by idolatry. See text in Gemara, Sanhedrin, 63ab, and Cairo's comment on this criticism. G.