Commentary for Sanhedrin 160:8

הנסקלין בנשרפין ר"ש אומר ידונו בסקילה שהשריפה חמורה אי הכי אימא סיפא וחכ"א ידונו בשריפה שהסקילה חמורה תיפוק ליה דרובה נשרפין נינהו

IF CRIMINALS CONDEMNED TO STONING [BECAME MIXED UP] WITH OTHERS CONDEMNED TO BURNING. R. Ezekiel taught his son Ram: If criminals condemned to burning [became mixed up] with others condemned to stoning — R. Simeon said, they are stoned, because burning is severer. Thereupon Rab Judah said to him, 'Father, teach it not thus: Why state the reason because burning is severer? This follows from the fact that the majority are for stoning.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For 'if criminals condemned to burning became mixed up with others condemned to stoning' implies that the latter were in the majority, as the smaller number is lost (i.e., 'mixed up') in the larger. ');">⁸</span>

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