And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
It is here promised that the gospel temple shall be very lightsome and very large. I. It shall be very lightsome: Thy light has come. When the Jews returned out of captivity they had light and gladness, and joy and honour; they then were made to know the Lord and to rejoice in his great goodness; and upon both accounts their light came.
Commenting on Isaiah 60:1-8
And the Gentiles shall come to thy light,.... To the Gospel, preached in the midst of her; and to Christ, who is her light and into her church state, and partake of the prosperity and happiness of it. The Targum is, "and nations shall walk in thy light;'' and so in Rev 21:24, where it is interpreted of the nations of them that are saved...
(Isa 2:3; Isa 11:10; Isa 43:6; Isa 49:22; Isa 66:12). kings-- (Isa 49:7, Isa 49:23; Isa 52:15). thy rising--rather, "thy sun-rising," that is, "to the brightness that riseth upon thee."