AE 463 "to fall on the faces before God"

AE 463
. . . "falling upon the face" signifies humiliation of heart,
since to fall upon the face corresponds to such humiliation;
for all the acts of the body
so correspond to the affections of the mind
that the two make one by correspondences;
thus to fall upon the face before God in worship
makes one by correspondence with humiliation of the heart.
From this it became a custom with the ancients,
and it still continues with many nations,
to fall upon the very face in worship;
while in the Christian world at present
it is the custom simply to fall upon the knees.