“Wherefore do you applaud yourself in those vain and silly conceits, as if you were withheld from good works by fear and solicitude for the future? … Yea, confess what is the truth…
You are a captive and slave of your money; you are bound with the chains and bonds of covetousness; and you whom Christ had once loosed are once more in chains. You keep your money, which, when kept, does not keep you…
Why do you watch in loneliness over your riches? Why for your punishment do you heap up the burden of your patrimony, that in proportion as you are rich in this world, you may become poor to God?
Divide your returns with the Lord your God; share your gains with Christ; make Christ a partner with you in your earthly possessions, that He also may make you a fellow-heir with Him in His heavenly kingdom.”
Cyprian of Carthage (c. 200-258) in On Works and Alms 13.