By hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved — so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has come upon them at last — the opposition to the gospel's universal proclamation represents a critical impediment to God's redemptive purpose. The phrase 'fill up the measure' (anapleroō to metron) evokes the OT pattern of accumulated transgression issuing in judgment (Dan 8:23). The statement 'wrath has come upon them at last' (eis telos) suggests that divine judgment, begun in the events of 70 CE, is already falling.

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