John Trapp on Matthew 17:6

Verse 6. They fell on their face] As amazed and amated with that stupendious voice that came from the excellent glory, as St Peter phraseth it, 2 Pet. 1. 17. So Moses and Elias hid their faces when God spake unto them, as not able to bear his brightnesse: [illegible: 1 word] entred into their bones. The very Angels cover their faces before him with two of their wings, as with a double scarfe, or as one claps his hands upon his face when it lightneth, and flasheth suddenly upon him. What a mercy is it then to us, that we are taught by men like our selves? that we have this treasure in earthen vessels, this pearl of price in a leathern purse? Here lay the three Disciples; and, had not Christ mercifully touched them, and raised them, there they had lain for dead.