Quoting%20commentary for Sanhedrin 169:7
והכי קתני ומה במקום מצוה שמצוה להכותו מצוה שלא להכותו שלא במקום מצוה שאינו מצוה להכותו אינו דין שמצוה שלא להכותו
— R. Shesheth maintains that it refers to one who is not urged to go forth. If so, a stranger too [should be punished for beating him]? — As far as a stranger is concerned, he is already a dead man.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But this reasoning obviously cannot apply to his son, who is bound to honour him even after death, the verse excluding a transgressor from this filial duty being at this stage of the discussion unknown. ');"><sup>7</sup></span>
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