“... GOLDEN RULE. Since the 18th century the “Golden Rule” has commonly designated the ethical maxim, “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you,” attributed to Jesus by Matthew (7:12) and Luke (6:31). [...] Within the Jewish tradition, various formulations of the Golden Rule are found from about 200 B.C. [...] Other commentators, however, compare the Golden Rule to Lev 19:18 and Deut 15:13, and find early Jewish formulations in Tob 4:15, “And what you hate, do not do to anyone,” and Sir 31:15, “Judge your neighbor’s feelings by your own.” [...] Some authors contrast Matthew and Luke’s positive formulation of Jesus’ saying with the negative formulation in much Jewish literature. [...] The positive formulation of the Jesuanic logion was echoed, in early Christianity, by 1 Clem. 13:2, which cites it as part of a catena of citations, and by Tertullian (Adv. Marc. 4.17), who argued that Jesus’ positively formulated utterance (= Luke 6:31) implied its negatively formulated counterpart. In contrast, the Didache, however, offered a negative formulation, without specifically ascribing it to Jesus [...]. Finally, a negative version of the logion, hardly different from the common Jewish formulation, is ascribed to Jesus by the Coptic Gospel of Thomas: “Do not do what you hate” (Gos. Thom. 6). ...”