"LOVE YOUR ENEMIES," THE GOLDEN RULE, AND ANCIENT RECIPROCITY (LUKE 6:27-35)

From: Journal of Biblical Literature | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Kirk, Alan | Copyright information

The golden rule introduces a note of reciprocity into Luke 6:27-35 that seems dissonant with the instruction's inaugural command to "love your enemies." Rudolf Bultmann's judgment that the rule expresses "naive egoism," though tenacious, is not universal; many argue that the rule surmounts crude self-interest.1 Nevertheless, interpreters of the passage have been markedly averse to viewing Jesus' command to love enemies in terms of reciprocity, feeling that, no matter how others-oriented the g...

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