60:8 Who [are] these {i} [that] fly as a cloud, and as doves to their windows?
(i) Showing what great number will come to the Church, and with what great diligence and zeal.
60:8 A cloud - These metaphors import the number as well as speed, of those that should be begotten by the apostles doctrine.
60:1-8 As far as we have the knowledge of God in us, and the favour of God towards us, our light is come. And if God's glory is seen upon us to our honour, we ought, not only with our lips, but in our lives, to return its praise. We meet with nothing in the history of the Jews which can be deemed a fulfilment of the prophecy in this chapter; we must conclude it relates principally to future events. It predicts the purity and enlargement of the church. The conversion of souls is here described. They fly to Christ, to the church, to the word and ordinances, as doves to their own home; thither they fly for refuge and shelter, thither they fly for rest. What a pleasant sight to see poor souls hastening to Christ!
