Commentary for Yevamot 112:10

ואיכא דאמרי אמר רבה אשת כהן שנאנסה בעלה לוקה עליה משום טומאה משום טומאה אין משום זונה לא אלמא באונס לא קרינא ביה זונה

When, therefore, Scripture specified in the case of the wife of an Israelite that only if she be not seized<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. V, 13. E.V., neither she be taken in the act. ');">¹⁷</span> she is forbidden but if she was seized<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., if she acted under compulsion. ');">¹⁸</span> she is permitted, it may be inferred that the wife of a priest retains her forbidden status.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Her prohibition to the priest, even if she acted under compulsion, is consequently derived from the original negative precept, and not, as had been assumed, from the positive precept relating to an Israelite. ');">²⁵</span>

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