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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"That they do good," he says, "that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute willing to communicate." The first phrase refers to wealth, the second to charity. For to be willing to communicate, implies that they are sociable and kind.
Theophylact of Ohrid
From the general instruction "exhort" them "to do good" the following also follows: if you wish to become rich, become rich in doing good. This refers to money. This refers to love. By sociable, understand talkative, affable people.
Oecumenius
To do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, storing up for themselves a good foundation for the future, so that they may obtain eternal life. to do good, to be rich in good works. If you seek wealth, seek true wealth, not uncertain. What are these? Goods, Paul says, are easy to distribute; for this is the nature of money. to be generous. That is, gentle, friendly, modest, and humble. storing up for themselves. That is, laying down, Paul says, a good foundation. …
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
Those who have given liberally of their riches have had great gains to compensate them for light losses. Their joy at what they assured for themselves more securely by readiness to give outweighed their sadness at the surrender of possessions they more easily lost because they clung to them fearfully. Reluctance to remove their goods from this world exposed them to the risk of loss. …
Leo the Great
Let those who wish Christ to spare them, have mercy on the poor; let them give freely to feed the wretched, who desire to attain to the society of the blessed. Let no man consider his fellow vile, nor despise in any one that nature which the Creator of the world made His own. For who that labours can deny that Christ claims that labour as done unto Himself? Your fellow-slave is helped thereby, but it is the Lord who will repay. …
Thomas Aquinas
Then when he says, do good, he instructs him to achieve what is good. But those whose love is beamed on riches, strive, first of all, to acquire them; second, to use them, once they are possessed; third, to obtain the end of riches. These are the three things the Apostle advises: first, that he acquire spiritual riches; hence do good and be rich in good works: learn to do well (Isa 1:17). In regard to the second, it should be noted that there are two ways to use riches: one is to hoard them, and the other is to give them away. …
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