Commentary for Sanhedrin 99:17

רבי שמעון אומר כו': שריפה חמורה מסקילה שכן ניתנה לבת כהן שזינתה ומאי חומרא שכן מחללת את אביה

Burning is severer than strangulation, since it is the punishment of a priest'sadulterous daughter, the gravity of whose offence has already been stated.On the contrary, is not strangulation severer than burning, being the punishmentof one who strikes his father or mother, the enormity of whose offense isconstituted by the fact that their honour is compared to that of theOmnipresent? — Since the Divine Law excluded a nesu'ah, the daughter of a priest,from the penalty of a nesu'ah, if an Israelite's daughter, by changing herdeath from strangling to burning, it follows that burning is severer.

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