Orthodox Parable and Stories

Once Abba Isaiah the Anchorite went to a landowner, who was threshing his crops, and holding a zeppelin said to him:

"Give me some wheat."

He looked at him carefully and answered him:

"Why should I give you wheat elder? Did you come to help me in the summer?"

"No," he replied.

"Then how do you ask me to give you wheat?" The landowner tells him.

"So whoever does not reap has no right to anything?" Abba asked.

"Yes, my elder, to nothing at all," said the landowner.

After this discussion, Abba left.

The brothers who attended Abba's discussion with the landowner, after leaving, asked him:

"Why did you do that, Abba?"

And he answered them:

"I did it for all of us to have as an example, that whoever does not toil for the love of Christ, can not expect any reward from God.