Matthew 24:45

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

), good and wise, whom the Lord sets over His household, to give them their meat in due season? Blessed is that servant whom his Lord, when He cometh, shall find so doing."[374]

Epistle of Theonas to Lucianus

And, in like manner, all that is paid out to others, or expended by order of the emperor, should be entered in its own place by itself in the reckoning; and that servant should be faithful and prudent, so that his lord may rejoice that he has set him over his goods,[13]

The First Epistle of Clement Concerning Virginity

not workmen "drunken" and "faithless; "[138]

Clementine Homily III

And the Lord of that servant shall come in an hour when he doth not look for Him, and in a day when he is not aware, and shall cut him in sunder, and shall assign his unfaithful part with the hypocrites.'[67]