Commentary for Sanhedrin 100:3

אדרבה חנק חמור שכן ניתן למכה אביו ואמו ומאי חומרא שכן הוקש כו'

Stoning is severer than slaying, being the penalty of a blasphemer, etc.On the contrary, is not slaying severer than stoning, since it is the penaltyof the inhabitants of a seduced city, the gravity of whose offence is provedby the fact that their property is destroyed? — Now consider, whose offenceis greater: the seducer's or the seduced? Surely that of the seducer! Henceyou may argue from a major to a minor premise. If stoning is severer thanstrangulation, though the latter be severer thanslaying,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As will he proved in the next passage. ');">⁴</span>

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