need, in order to do good by giving freely. “Freely you have received, freely give”164—this saying was not originally Christian, but gives expression to what antiquity as a whole considered religiously proper. By contrast, one who received divine benefits and yet remained tightfisted and blind to the needs of others was considered sacrilegious and prone to divine retribution and punishment.165 These ideas must be very old, and must have constituted part of the generally accepted wisdom tradition