Midrash for Sanhedrin 178:21
ור"ש כיון שהדיח אין לך הדיוט גדול מזה
and by every unspecified death sentence in the Torah strangulation is meant. 'The seducers of a seduced city are executed by stoning'. What is the reason of the Rabbis? — Similarity of law is learnt from the employment of 'seduction' here and in the case of either a mesith or a prophet who seduced.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Here: and have seduced the inhabitants of their city. Ibid. 13, the other two: ibid. 6 and 11. V. p. 596. n. 9 for quotations. ');"><sup>29</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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