87. The apostles truly saw this glory, when the Lord Jesus on the mount shone with the light of His Godhead: “The apostles,” it says, “saw it and fell on their face.” S. Matt. xvii. 6. Do not you think that they even, as they fell, worshipped, when they could not with their bodily eyes endure the brightness of the divine splendour, and the glory of eternal light dulled the keenness of mortal sight? Or what else did they who saw His glory say at that time, except, “O come let us worship and fall down before Him”? Ps. xcv. [xciv.] 6. For “God shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” 2 Cor. iv. 6.