Study it in the app“hindering us from speaking to the nations so that they may be saved, so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But the wrath has come upon them to the end.”
hinderingκωλυόντωνusἡμᾶςfrom speakingλαλῆσαιto the nationsτοῖς ἔθνεσινso thatἵναthey may be saved,σωθῶσινso asεἰς τὸalwaysπάντοτεto fill upἀναπληρῶσαιthe measure of theirαὐτῶνsins.τὰς ἁμαρτίαςButδὲthe wrathἡ ὀργὴhas comeἔφθασενuponἐπ’themαὐτοὺςto the end.εἰς τέλος
hinder
To hinder, to prevent.
Where else “kōlyontōn” appearsspeak
To use voice and words to communicate with others.
Where else “lalēsai” appearsGentile
The peoples who are not Israel.
Where else “ethnesin” appearssave
To rescue from sin and ruin.
Where else “sōthōsin” appearsalways
Always.
Where else “pantote” appearsfill up, fulfill
Fill up, complete; fulfill; also fill a place or supply what is lacking.
Where else “anaplērōsai” appearssin
Doing what God does not want, and the guilt it leaves.
Where else “hamartias” appearswrath
God's anger against evil, his punishment.
Where else “orgē” appearsarrive
Arrive, reach, attain.
Where else “ephthasen” appearsend
The end of something.
Where else “telos” appears“To the end”: it can also be understood as “completely” or “at last.”
15who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and who do not please God and are hostile to all people,
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17But we, brothers, having been separated from you for a short time —in person, not in heart— were all the more eager, with great desire, to see your face,
