Yesterday's daf included a new Mishna stating the tension between those who believe that slaughtering for a Gentile is permitted and those who do not because it is the slaughterer who must have the proper intention.
Today's daf introduces a baraita which teaches that if someone slaughters with the intention of sprinkling the blood for idolatry/sacrificing its fats to an idol, that sacrifice is forbidden. That sacrifice would be like eating "sacrifices of the dead".
Slaughtering without particular plans and then including idolatrous behavior is described as a case in Caesarea and the Sages did not rule. Rav Chisda says that they did not wish to side against Sages who assume that non-Jews might not sacrifice idolatrously. They also did not wish to insult Rabbi Eliezer who was certain that we should assume idolatrous practice would follow non-Jewish sacrifice.
Steinsaltz teaches us about some of the history of Cesearea, which was often populated by a majority of Pagans. Stories about how to interpret Jewish law regarding Jews and Gentiles were common in this city.
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