The Didache (anonymously-written Christian text, created around year 100)
“Do not be one who holds his hand out to take, but shuts it when it comes to giving.”
- The anonymously-written Didache (“The Teaching,” c. 100 CE), translated by Cyril C. Richardson (1970) in After The New Testament: A Reader In Early Christianity, edited by Bart D. Ehrman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.