For I say unto you, That unto everyone who has shall be given; and from him that has not, even what he has shall be taken away from him.
Read Chapter 19
Clement Of Alexandria
AD 215
But knowledge, conveyed from communication through the grace of God as a deposit, is entrusted to those who show themselves worthy of it; and from it the worth of love beams forth from light to light. For it is said, "To him that hath shall be given: "
For they declare that we simply receive grace for use, wherefore also it will again be taken away from us; but that they themselves have grace as their own special possession, which has descended from above by means of an unspeakable and indescribable conjunction; and on this account more will be given them.