Matthew Poole and continuators on Micah 4:2

2 And many nations shall come and say, Come , and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD , and to the house of the God of Jacob , and he will teach us of his wayes , and we will walk in his paths : for the law shall go forth of Zion , and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem .

This was in part, and as Type fulfilled when so many proselyted and circumcised servants of several Nations amassed in the Babylonish Kingdom left their native Countrey, and in love to their Iewish Masters, and more to the God of the Iewes and his Law, came up with them to Ierusalem and the Temple; afterwards, when the wonderful deliverance of the Iews and the advancement of their Countrey-man Mordecai in the Persian Court, brought the people and their Religion into request, and credit, many turn'd Iews, through the 127 Provinces, Esth. 8.17, were circumcised, became Proselytes of Righteousness. And in the times succeeding through the Reigns of five Kings, for 90 years the Iewish affairs and Religion continued in a tolerable good condition. In Alexanders time, and under the Maccabees, also this prophesie was partly fulfilled when Ishmaelites, Moabites, Ammonites and Idumeans submitted to the Maccabees, and by Hyrcanus his command, and with their own consent, the Idumeans were circumcised; as Josephus lib. 13. cap. 17. Antiq. This, notwithstanding the words, had a fuller accomplishment, and still shall have under the Gospel days in these times of the Messiah, to which as to the Antitype and principal mark they are levelled no doubt.

So the captive Jews by Cyrus and Darius Decree released from captivity, did certainly call, perswade and encourage each other to leave the strange lands in which they had been captives, and to go up to Jerusalem, and to build that and the Temple, and to restore the Worship of God. And zealous Proselytes did, as the Eunuch Lord Treasurer to Queen Candace, came up to Jerusalem to Worship. So that we meet many Proselytes at Jerusalem. Acts 2.5, 10, 11. whither they were wont to come before the Gospel was publish'd. Now as this was a fulfilling of this Prophesie in part, so the conversion of the multitude of the Gentiles to Christ is much more eminently a fulfilling of it.

To the Temple at Jerusalem, Type of Christ and the Gospel Church.

This explains the former passage and doth, as that, respectively look to the Worship of God at Jerusalem, and in Gospel dayes.

Out of his Law both in points of Worship and Judicature, by such as Ezra, Nehemiah, by such as Zehariah and Haggai, and by Scribes acquainted with the Law of God, this to last till Elias, forerunner to Christ, should prepare his way and the Messiah should come to teach his people, and publish the Gospel of the Kingdom, by Apostles, and succeeding Preachers.

As was the duty of returning captives▪ and as, indeed, many of them did after their return walk more exactly in the wayes of God, and especially kept themselves from Idolatry, yet this was a fulfilling of this Prophesie in Type presignifying what hath been done this 1600 years and more, under the preaching of the Gospel, before Jacob onely, now all Nations see the Salvation of God.

In Jerusalem and Zion is declared the only way of worshipping God before Messiah comes, and from thence the onely Law of right worshipping God shall go forth, when Messiah is come.

An elegant ingemination of the same thing in somewhat different words which as they do respect both Type and Antitype so must be applyed, to each respectively.