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Who named it the golden rule?

Updated: 10/4/2023
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The Golden Rule: Treat others as you wish to be treated, can be traced as far back as 1800 BC - before most major religions of today but was used as a part of those religions - in the Code of Hammurabi and as well as notably quoted by Confucius.

Some say it was a certain religion which originated this but this is not true as that moral principle has been around before they were even created. Religions tend to reuse older traditions and repackage them into their own.

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The golden rule was named by an unknown person or persons about 1640 - the KJV Bible from where it originated was published in 1611.

The golden rule is so named from its teaching from Jesus in the first century:

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. (Matthew 7.12)

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