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Tobit 4:15

The New Testament’s use of Tobit

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

And what you yourself hate, do to no man. Don’t drink wine to drunkenness, and don’t let drunkenness go with you on your way.

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Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.

Allusion2

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Luke 6:27-31

'What you hate, do to no one' is the deuterocanonical negative Golden Rule, the nearest Second-Temple antecedent to 'as you would like people to do to you, do so to them.' Direct conceptual dependence; Availability within the OT/deuterocanon is secure.

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Matt 7:12

'What you hate, do to no one' — the negative form of the Golden Rule in the deuterocanon; the closest verbal precedent to 7:12's reciprocity maxim.

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Elsewhere in Tobit 4
Tobit 4:7 2Tobit 4:7-11 9Tobit 4:9 2