Luther (Complete Sermons, vol. 6, p. 404): "To worthless, good-for-nothing, lazy beggars, who gain their livelihood by begging, and help no one, refuse to tend cattle or do any other menial kind of work, and yet want money in their pockets, we should not give a thing, but let them die of hunger. But where there are people truly in need, there it should behoove a Christian to do what the Samaritan does here."
Witte, Law and Protestantism, 20: “Voluntary poverty was a form of social parasitism to be punished, not a symbol of spiritual sacrifice to be rewarded. Only the worthy local poor deserved charity, and only if they could not be helped by their immediate family members, the family being the ‘first school of charity.’ "