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Mic_7:12 [In] that day [also] he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and [from] the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and [from] mountain to mountain.
Ver. 12. In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria] To thee, Jerusalem, in the type, shall recourse be had from all parts, as if thou wert the chief city of the world (Pliny saith, that in his time she was the most famous of all the cities of the East; and Titus himself is said to have wept at the last destruction of it by his soldiers, whom he could not restrain from firing the temple). To the new Jerusalem, the Church of the New Testament, in the antitype: from whence the gospel was sent out to "every creature which is under heaven," Col_1:23, and whereunto people of all sorts flowed, and many nations came, Mic_4:1-2, with highest acclamations, most vigorous affections, and utmost endeavours bestowing themselves upon the Lord Christ, Act_2:9. Jerusalem in the Hebrew tongue is of the dual number; in regard of the two parts of the city, the upper and the nether town. Or (as the Cabalists give the reason), in regard of a two-fold Jerusalem, the heavenly and the earthly; and the taking away of the earthly, they say, was signified by the taking away of the letter jod out of Jerushalajim, 2Sa_5:13. "But Jerusalem which is above is free," firm and full; "the desolate" (once so) "having many more children than she that hath a husband," Gal_4:26-27, "Whom the Lord of hosts also doth bless, saying" (as a father to them all), "Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance," Isa_19:25.
And from the fortress even to the river] i.e. from all bounds and borders of the land, yea, of the world, {Psa_89:12, Tabor and Hermon are put for the east and west parts of the world} shall people come to the new Jerusalem, which hath "twelve gates: On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates," Rev_21:12-13. {See Trapp on "Rev_21:12"} {See Trapp on "Rev_21:13"}