Midrash for Sanhedrin 178:16
נביא שהדיח בסקילה מ"ט דרבנן אתיא הדחה הדחה ממסית מה להלן בסקילה אף כאן בסקילה
'But', said [Satan] to him, 'should not thy fear be thy confidence?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Job. IV, 6, i.e., through fearing God, you should be entirely safe, instead of which you are about to sacrifice your son! So Tosaf. in B.M. 58b, s.v. [H]. ');"><sup>21</sup></span> 'Remember', he retorted, 'I pray thee, whoever perished, being innocent?'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 6. Thus he reasserted his faith in God. ');"><sup>22</sup></span>
Sifrei Devarim
"to turn you astray from the way": It is written here "turning astray," and, elsewhere (Ibid. 11) (in respect to one who incites to idol worship), "turning astray." Just as there the punishment is stoning, so, here. R. Shimon says: This one's death is only by strangulation.
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