I have showed you all things, how that so laboring you ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said,
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Observe him employed in work and not simply that, but toiling. These hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me: so as to put them to shame. And see how worthily of them. For he says not, You ought to show yourselves superior to money, but what? to support the weak— not all indiscriminately— and to hear the word of the Lord which He spoke, It is more blessed to give than to receive. For lest any one should think that it was spoken with reference to them, and that he gave himself for an ensample, as he elsewhere says, giving an ensample to you Philippians 3:17, he added the declaration of Christ, Who said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. He prayed over them while exhorting them: he shows it both by action,— And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all,
