Thomas Aquinas, on Isa 38:11

“I said: I shall not see the Lord God in the land of the living. I shall behold man no more, nor the inhabitant of rest.”

“Second, he laments the loss of good things, as to the vision of God: I sought, from the Lord, that he might supply, the residue, taken away from me, or I sought in myself how much life remained for me. I said, to myself: I shall not see the Lord God, still only through a likeness, in the land of the living, in heavenly beatitude: I believe to see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living (Ps 27:13); or I shall not see the Lord God, any more, seeing the temple and the worship of the Lord, in the land of the living, namely, the land of the Jews: he is not the God of the dead but of the living (Matt 22:32). And as to the society of men: I shall behold man, living in this life, no more: there shall not a man dwell there (Jer 49:18). Or the man, Christ, promised to us.”

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