Faith and Following

Et accedens unus scriba, ait illi: Magister, sequar te, quocumque ieris. Et dicit ei Jesus: Vulpes foveas habent, et volucres cæli nidos; Filius autem hominis non habet ubi caput reclinet.  Iste scriba qui est unus ex doctoribus legis, an sit secuturus interrogat, quasi lege non contineretur hunc esse quem utiliter sequatur. Igitur infidelitatis affectum sub diffidentia interrogationis expressit: quia fidei assumptio non interroganda est, sed sequenda. Sanctus Hilarius Pictaviensis, In Evangelium Matthaei Commentarius, Cap VII

And one of the scribes came to him, and said, 'Master, I will follow you wherever you are going.' But Jesus said to him, 'Foxes have holes and the birds of the air their resting places, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.' 1  This Scribe, who is one of the doctors of the Law, asks if he shall follow Him, as though it were not contained in the Law that this is He whom it profits to follow. Therefore He expresses the feeling of unbelief under the diffidence of his enquiry. For the taking up of the faith is not by questioning but by following.  Saint Hilary of Poitiers, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 7 1 Mt 8.19