Charles Ellicott Commentary Revelation 2:28

"and I will give him the morning star." — Revelation 2:28 (ASV)

The morning star.—The pledge of the coming day, both for the waiting witnesses, and for the ungodly, who loved darkness because their deeds were evil: the earnest of the sovereignty of light over darkness, when the children of the day would be manifest, and shine as the stars for ever and ever (Daniel 12:3).