eye for an eye n.: lex talionis [Latin]
The Golden Rule [“do unto others as you would have them do unto you”] was not submitted to systematic analysis until Albrecht Dihle’s classic work in 1962. Dihle rooted it in the oldest norm of human conduct, the principle of retribution. . . . The most severe form of this principle, found in primitive law and primitive morality, was the lex talionis. (John Topel, “The Tarnished Golden Rule (Luke 6:31): The Inescapable Radicalness of Christian Ethics,” Theological Studies, 9/1/1998, p. 475.)
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