Revelation 3:17

Tertullian On Repentance

upbraids the Laodiceans for trusting to their riches;[75]

Cyprian Treatise VIII On Works and Alms

I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear in thee; and anoint thine eyes with eye-salve, that thou mayest see."[42]

A Treatise Against the Heretic Novatian by an Anonymous Bishop

Why, from the very fact that thou art become poorer, believest thou thyself rich? Hear in the Apocalypse the Lord's voice rebuking thee with righteous reproaches: "Thou sayest," says He, "I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and blind, and poor, and naked."[2]