Jewish%20thought for Sanhedrin 178:22

אמר רב חסדא

But R. Simeon maintained: similarity of law is learned from the employment of 'seduction' here and in the case of a prophet who seduced.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And as the latter is strangled, in his opinion so are the former too. ');">³⁰</span> But let us rather deduce it from mesith?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Where stoning is distinctly stated (ibid. 11). ');">³¹</span> — An analogy is drawn between two who incite a multitude, and not between one who incites a multitude and another who seduces an individual.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The maddiah and the false prophet seduce a community, the mesith an individual (or individuals). ');">³²</span> On the contrary, should not an analogy be drawn between two laymen, rather than between a layman and a prophet? — R Simeon maintains, since he seduced, no man is more of a layman than he.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. p. 557, n. 5. ');">³³</span> R. Hisda said:

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