... , Oratio 4; Epistulae 3, 8, 9; Ps.-Plato, Epistula 7; Ps.-Demosthenes, Epistula 1; Socratic Epistles 30–32; Ps.-Sallust, Epistula 2; Dio Chrysostomus, Orationes 38–41; Aelius Aristides, Orationes 23–24; [Herodes Atticus,] Peri Politeias; Ps.-Julian, Oratio 35; see further Isocrates, 4.3; 5.16; Epistula 3.2; Cicero, De Oratione 1.56; Dio Cassius, 44.23.3; Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 1.9.4; Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras 9.45). On the genre of 2 Corinthians, see, for example, John T. Fitzgerald ...
... his favor. 7:12 Verse 12 is commonly called the Golden Rule. In its negative form it is found in many ancient cultures. Confucius said, “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” In the fourth century B.C., the Athenian orator Isocrates said, “Whatever angers you when you suffer it at the hands of others, do not do it to others.” Hillel states the same principle in response to a request that he teach the entire law while standing on one foot (b. Shab. 31a). Apparently it never was ...
