Editing Golden Rule (section)

===== Church Fathers =====
As prolific commentators on the Bible, multiple [[Church Fathers]], including the [[Apostolic Fathers]], wrote on the Golden Rule found in both Old and New Testaments.<ref>Johannes Aakjær Steenbuch (2019). "The Problem of the Negative Version of the Golden Rule in Early Christian Ethics".</ref>{{fcn|reason=What kind of source is this?? Make it identifiable and [[WP:V|verifiable]]|date=November 2024}} The early Christian treatise the [[Didache]] included the Golden Rule in saying "in everything, do not do to another what you would not want done to you."<ref>Didache 1.2, in: ''Bart D. Ehrman'', The Apostolic Fathers: Volume I. I Clement. II Clement. Ignatius. Polycarp. Didache. Barnabas, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003</ref>

[[Clement of Alexandria]], commenting on the Golden Rule in Luke 6:31, calls the concept "all embracing" for how one acts in life.<ref>Clement of Alexandria, ''Paedagogus'' 3.12.88.1</ref> Clement further pointed to the phrasing in the book of Tobit as part of the ethics between husbands and wives. [[Tertullian]] stated that the rule taught "love, respect, consolation, protection, and benefits".<ref>Tertullian, ''Adversus Marcionem'' 4.16</ref>

While many Church Fathers framed the Golden Rule as part of Jewish and Christian Ethics, [[Theophilus of Antioch]] stated that it had universal application for all of humanity.<ref>Theophilus, ''Ad Autolycum'' 2.34</ref> [[Origen]] connected the Golden Rule with the law written on the hearts of Gentiles mentioned by Paul in his letter to the Romans, and had universal application to Christian and non-Christian alike.<ref>Origen, ''Commentaria in Epistolam B. Pauli ad Romanos'' 2.9.9</ref>

[[Basil of Caesarea]] commented that the negative form of the Golden Rule was for avoiding evil while the positive form was for doing good.<ref>Basil of Caesarea, ''In Hexaemeron'' 9.3</ref>