The malachim wanted the hidden treasure, the secrets hidden in the Torah, so Moshe Rabbenu told them that if the simple understanding does not apply they cannot receive that either. The Ben Ish Chai illustrates this with a mashel. A father who had multiple children. He bought one of them a special suit which has precious stones and jewelry sewn into it. They all agreed that whoever gets the suit gets the valuables in it but the question was who it was intended for? The youngest one gets up and says, let’s try it on see who it fits?
The Chasam Sofer explains that in order to be mechadesh something in the Torah we have to put the effort into it through kashyes by revealing the hidden buried treasures. The haflah says that a kashye is a divine intervention, a siyata dishmaya. He gives a mashel to a simpleton who was given a diamond. He thinks, what can I do with it? So, he goes to a goldsmith, as he likes gold, he tells to cover it in gold. As he was no expert in the field, he left some holes behind. The simpleton sees the gold but the smart one sees the diamond under the gold which gets revealed through the kashyes.
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