“Thou shalt not turn away the needy, but shalt share everything with thy brother, and shalt not say that it is thine own, for if you are sharers in the imperishable, how much more in the things which perish?”
Clement of Alexandria (c. 150-215) in Two Ways, as cited by L. Wm. Countryman in The Rich Christian in the Church of the Early Empire (New York and Toronto: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1980) 76.