1 Thessalonians 2:16

14 For you, brethren, became imitators ^aof the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For ^byou also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, just as they did from the Judeans,

15 ^awho killed both the Lord Jesus and ^btheir own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God ^cand are contrary to all men,

16 ^aforbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, so as always ^bto fill up the measure of their sins; ^cbut wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.

Longing to See Them

17 But we, brethren, having been taken away from you for a short time ^ain presence, not in heart, endeavored more eagerly to see your face with great desire.

18 Therefore we wanted to come to you—even I, Paul, time and again—but ^aSatan hindered us.

19 For ^awhat is our hope, or joy, or ^bcrown of rejoicing? Is it not even you in the ^cpresence of our Lord Jesus Christ ^dat His coming?

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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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).

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