“And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?”
Then he asked them, if one of you has a child or an ox that falls into a well on the Sabbath day, will you not immediately pull it out? — the child-or-ox-in-a-well argument is the Sabbath emergency precedent: no one leaves a child (or animal) in a well to observe the Sabbath rest. The emergency overrides the restriction. The man with dropsy is at least as urgent as a child in a well.
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