The Messiah's Dawn and the Merit of Torah in Midrash Shmuel

"And as the light of morning the sun rises" (2 Samuel 23:4). We do not know what is meant by "And as the light of morning the sun rises," but rather, when the Holy One, blessed be He, lit up the morning of the Messiah, He made the sun shine, as it is written concerning him, "And his throne is as the sun before Me" (Psalms 89:37). "A morning without clouds" (2 Samuel 23:4) — this is the Messiah. Another interpretation: "A morning without clouds" — that he does not come through the merit of the fathers. Through whose merit does he come? Through the merit of the Torah. This is what is written: "For my house is not so with God, yet He has made with me an everlasting covenant, etc." (2 Samuel 23:5). "Ordered in all" (2 Samuel 23:5) — in Babylonia; "and kept" — in Media; "for all my salvation and all my desire" — in Greece; "for it shall not sprout" — in Edom; "but a man shall touch them, etc., they shall be utterly burned in their place" (2 Samuel 23:7) — this is the Great Sanhedrin of the Chamber of Hewn Stone.