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,
15awho 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,
16aforbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, so as always bto fill up themeasureof 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? Isit not even you in the cpresence of our Lord Jesus Christ dat His coming?
I Thessalonians 2:16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles. Nothing created such animosity on the part of the Jews as preaching the gospel to the Gentiles. See Acts 22:21-23. To fill up their sins always. To fill the measure of their sins so full that God would reject them as a people. Compare Genesis 15:16 Mt 23:32. For the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost. They were ripe for destruction. Before twenty years it came.
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