1 THESSALONIANS 2:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.”
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.
Church Fathers on 1 Thessalonians 2:16
“For you,” he says, “became imitators of the Churches of God which are in Judæa.” This is a great consolation. It is no wonder, he says, that they should do these things to you, inasmuch as they have done it also to their own countrymen. And this too is no little proof that the Preaching is true, that even Jews were able to endure all things. “For you also,” he says, “have suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews.” There is something more…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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