Thomas Aquinas, on Ps 33:6

“Come ye to him and be enlightened: and your faces shall not be confounded.”

“Then when he says, "This poor man cried out," he presents the merit of being heard. And concerning this he does three things. First, he presents the merit itself. Second, he promises a similar benefit to others, at "The Angel shall encamp." Third, he exhorts them to experience it, at "Taste." He says therefore, "This poor man." This verse differs in nothing from the other, "I sought," except that there he speaks of himself, but here of a poor man. And therefore only this should be explained: who is this poor man? And it is said that "this" either points to himself or to Christ. And in what he says, "poor," he insinuates the merit of being heard, because he is poor in spirit, or poor of pride, or of the desire to possess earthly things. And these are heard: Jdt. 9: "The prayer of the humble and the meek has always pleased you": Ps. 32: "He has regarded the prayer of the humble," etc. "He cried out," with the greatness of interior affection: Is. 6: "The Seraphim cried out one to another and said, Holy, holy," etc.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.