Augustine of Hippo

"Wherefore hidest Thou Your face:" as if You were not present; as if you had forgotten us? "And forgettest our misery and trouble?" [Psalm 44:24].

Exposition on Psalm 44 ↗

Ambrose of Milan

We cannot see God's face. But there is a place where, by faith, God shows himself to us. The place is with God; and if we were to stand on the rock—that is, in awareness of this flesh and in firmness of faith—we will see as much as can be allowed to us to see. We cannot see the fullness, but we can, in a certain sense, drink in some remnant of his light. Moses did not see the full and entire divinity that dwells in Christ corporeally. But he saw the back of Christ. …

Commentary On Twelve Psalms 44:91 ↗

Thomas Aquinas

"Why do you turn away your face?" The defect of knowledge happens in two ways: either because he does not see, and therefore he says, "You turn away." When God helps, he seems to look upon us; when he does not, he seems to turn away. Ex. 3: "Seeing I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt," etc. Ps. 27: "Turn not your face from me." Or, "Why do you turn away your face," so that we may not see it; for if we could see it, we would suffer no evil. Or because he has forgotten. …

Exposition on the Psalms of David ↗