Patristic A.D. 604
“(Hom. in Ev. ix. 6.) Then follows a general sentence, For to every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance, but from him that hath not, even that which he seemeth to have shall be taken away. For whosoever has charity receives the other gifts also; but whosoever has not charity loses even the gifts which he seemed to have had.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 25:14-30
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗