“When [wells] are in disuse they grow foul. And so do riches grow useless, left idle and unused in any place; but moved about and passing from one person to another, they serve the common advantage and bear fruit … [Your grain] is not your own, but for common use of all. You were born naked. Why are you rich, and this other man poor? Is it not solely that you [the rich person] may earn the rewards of compassion, of good and faithful administration, and that [the poor person] may be honoured with the glorious rewards of patience?” (cf. 1 Tim 6:7-10).
Basil the Great (330-379), Bishop of Caesarea, Homily 6.5; 6.7 in S.R Holman, The Hungry Are Dying: Beggars and Bishops in Roman Cappadocia (Oxford: OUP, 2001) 107.