The blessed Melania told me this...

…When I first came from Rome to Alexandria and heard about (Abba Pambo’s) virtue from the blessed Isidore, who showed me the way to him in the desert, I took him a silver coffer containing three hundred pounds of silver and invited him to share in my wealth. He was sitting weaving palm leaves, and he merely blessed me and said, “May God reward you!”

And he told his steward Origen, “Take this and dispense it to all the brethren down in Libya and on the islands, for those monasteries are in greater need.” He gave him orders not to dispense any of it in
Egypt because that country was better off.”

She continued: I was standing by and expecting to be honored and praised by him for my donation, but I heard nothing from him, and so I spoke up to him, “So you may know, my lord, how much it is, there are three hundred pounds.”

He did not so much as raise his head, but said, “My child, He who measures the mountains knows better the amount of the silver. If you were giving it to me, you spoke well, but if you are giving it to God, who did not overlook the two obols, then be quiet.”

Palladius, Historia Lausiaca 10.2-4