A Tanna stated: ‘This [that one may read sitting] is not the case with the Torah’. Whence this rule? — R. Abbahu said: Because Scripture says, But as for thee, stand thou here by me. R. Abbahu also said: Were it not written in the Scripture, it would be impossible for us to say it: as it were, the Holy One, blessed be He, also was standing (Megilah 21a, Soncino Tran.)
To which Rashi comments:
כביכול נאמר בהקדוש ברוך הוא כבאדם שיכול להאמר בו כן
My Talmudic Aramaic isn't the greatest. What am I missing?
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