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To speak - that they might be saved (λαλῆσαι ἵνα σωθῶσιν)
Not, to speak to the Gentiles in order that they might be saved, but to tell the Gentiles that they might be saved. Comp. 1Co 10:33.
To fill up (ἀναπληρῶσαι)
The verb means the making up of what is lacking to perfect fulness; the filling of a partial void. Comp. Phi 2:30. Once in lxx of filling up of sins, Gen 15:16. Always blind and stubborn, the Jews filled up the measure of their sins by their treatment of Christ and his apostles.
Alway (πάντοτε)
Emphatically placed at the end of the sentence. At all times - before Christ, in Christ's time, now - the Jews by their resistance to the divine word fill up their sins.
Is come (ἔφθασεν)
The verb not frequent in N.T. and used mostly by Paul. See on 2Co 10:14, and comp. Rom 9:31; Phi 3:16.
To the uttermost (εἰς τέλος)
This is not the meaning of the phrase in N.T. It is to the end: see Mat 10:22; Mat 24:13; Luk 18:5; Joh 13:1. The wrath of God had not come upon them to the uttermost. The meaning is that the divine wrath had reached the point where it passed into judgment.