Repeat the Golden Rule.
“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 vii, 12]; [Luke vi, 31]).
Seventy years before Christ, Hillel, the Jewish rabbi, said:
“Do not to others what you would not have them do to you. This is the substance of the law.”
Rabbi Hirsch says: “Before Jesus, the Golden Rule was one of the household sayings of Israel.”
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Repeat the Lord’s Prayer.
According to Matthew.
| Old Version. | New Version. |
| “Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen” ([vi, 9–13]). | “Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.” |