2 Let us awake, and believe Him who exhorts us, obey Him who promises us, and rejoice in Him who gives unto us. For perhaps, some time or other some friend out of his way has come to us too, and we have found nothing to set before him; and under the experience of this necessity, we have received both for ourselves and him. For it cannot be, but that some one of us has fallen in with a friend who asked him something, which he could not answer; and then he has discovered that he has it not, when he is pressed to give it.
A friend has come to you “out of the way,” out, that is, of the life of this world, in which all men are passing along as strangers, and no one abides here as possessor; but to every man it is said, “You have been refreshed, pass on, go on your way, give place to the next comer.” Or perhaps from an evil “way,” that is, from an evil life, some friend of yours wearied out, and not finding the truth, by the hearing and perceiving of which he may be made happy, but exhausted amid all the lust and poverty of the world, comes to you, as to a Christian, and says, “Give me an account of this, make me a Christian.”
And he asks what it may be you did not know through the simplicity of your faith; and so you have not whereby to recruit him in his hunger, and reminded thus you discover your own indigence; and when you wish to teach you are forced to learn; and while you blush before him who asked you, as not finding in yourself what he was seeking for, you are compelled to seek, that you may be thought worthy to find.
Source: Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament (New Advent)