Quoting%20commentary for Ketubot 66:5

מתקיף לה רב אשי ממאי דמותרה לדבר חמור הוי מותרה לדבר הקל דלמא לא הוי ואם תמצא לומר הוי ממאי דמיתה חמורה דלמא מלקות חמור דאמר רב אילמלי נגדוה לחנניה מישאל ועזריה פלחו לצלמא

Ashi raised a difficulty: From where [do we know] that when one is warned regarding a severe matter one also stands warned for a light matter? Perhaps it is not so! And even if we say that it is so, how [do we know] that death is more severe? Perhaps lashes are more severe, for Rav said: ? If they had lashed Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, they would have worshipped the [golden] image?

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