Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Midrash 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. ');"><sup>30</sup></span> But let us rather deduce it from mesith?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Where stoning is distinctly stated (ibid. 11). ');"><sup>31</sup></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). ');"><sup>32</sup></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. ');"><sup>33</sup></span> R. Hisda said:

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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