Quoting%20commentary for Kiddushin 63:16

ורב יוסף אמר אפי' הרב שמחל על כבודו כבודו מחול שנאמר (שמות יג, כא) ויי' הולך לפניהם יומם אמר רבא הכי השתא התם הקדוש ב"ה עלמא דיליה הוא ותורה דיליה היא מחיל ליה ליקריה

But teach it thus: If [criminals condemned] to be stoned are mixed up with [others sentenced] to burning. Said he to him, If so, consider the second clause: But the Sages say: They are executed by burning, because stoning is severer. But why particularly because stoning is severer: deduce it from the fact that the majority are to be burnt? - There, he answered him, the Rabbis oppose<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'say to'.');">²¹</span> R'Simeon: As to what you say that burning is severer, that is not so, stoning being severer. Said Samuel to Rab Judah: Keen scholar!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Others translate: man of long teeth, v. B.K. (Sonc. ed.) p. 60, n. 1.');">²²</span> speak not thus to your father. For it was taught: If one's father is [unwittingly] transgressing a precept of the Torah, he must not say to him, 'Father, thou transgressest a Biblical precept', but, 'Father, it is thus written in the Torah.' 'It is thus wri the Torah' - but he surely grieves him?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For it is the same as telling him that he is transgressing.');">²³</span> But he must say to him, 'Father, such and such a verse Is written in the Torah.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Not directly stating the law, but leaving it for his father to understand. This does not shame him.');">²⁴</span> Eleazar B'Mathia said: If my father orders me, 'Give me a drink of water', while I have a precept to perform, I disregard<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'lay aside'.');">²⁵</span> my father's honour and perform the precept, since both my father and I are bound to fulfil the precepts. Issi B'Judah maintained: If the precept can be performed by others, it should be performed by others, while he should bestir himself for his father's honour. Said R'Mattena: The halachah agrees with Issi B'Judah. R'Isaac B'Shila said in R'Mattena's name in the name of R'Hisda: If a father renounces the honour due to him, it is renounced; but if a Rabbi renounces his honour, it is not renounced. R'Joseph ruled: Even if a Rabbi renounces his honour, it is renounced, for it is said: And the Lord went before them by day.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XIII, 21. Thus the Almighty renounced His honour and constituted Himself their Guide.');">²⁶</span> Said Raba: How compare! There, with respect to the Holy One, blessed be He, the world is His and the Torah is His; [hence] He can forego His honour.

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