“Work with self-restraint at your handiwork, that you may always have enough for yourselves and for the poor, and may not be a burden to the Church of God. Idleness is a disgrace, and he who will not work among us must not eat, for the Lord our God hates idlers, and none must be idle who honors God.”
Clement of Rome (This Early Church bishop was martyred in 101 by being strapped to an anchor and cast into the sea) in Apostolic Constitutions 2.63, as recounted by Gerhard Uhlhorn in Christian Charity in the Ancient Church (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1883) 135.