Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Forbidding—Greek, "Hindering us from speaking," etc.
to fill up their sins alway—Tending thus "to the filling up (the full measure of, Genesis 15:16; Daniel 8:23; Matthew 23:32) their sins at all times," that is, now as at all former times. Their hindrance of the Gospel preaching to the Gentiles was the last measure added to their continually accumulating iniquity, which made them fully ripe for vengeance.
for—Greek, "but." "But," they shall proceed no further, for (II Timothy 3:8) "the" divine "wrath has (so the Greek) come upon (overtaken unexpectedly; the past tense expressing the speedy certainty of the divinely destined stroke) them to the uttermost"; not merely partial wrath, but wrath to its full extent, "even to the finishing stroke" [EDMUNDS]. The past tense implies that the fullest visitation of wrath was already begun. Already in AD 48, a tumult had occurred at the Passover in Jerusalem, when about thirty thousand (according to some) were slain; a foretaste of the whole vengeance which speedily followed (Luke 19:43-44; Luke 21:24).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Thessalonians 2:16:
Ezekiel 5:9
Daniel 8:23
Mark 13:29
Romans 2:8
1 Thessalonians 2:1
1 Thessalonians 2:15
1 Thessalonians 2:17
2 Thessalonians 3:2
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