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1Th 2:16. Λαλῆσαι, to speak) Less is said than he wishes to be understood by Ταπείνωσις.-εἰς τὸ ἀναπληρῶσαι, that they may fill up) Obstinacy against receiving the word above all fills up the measure of sins.-αὐτῶν, their) the sins of the Jews.-πάντοτε) as always, so now also.-εἰς τέλος, [tending] to the end) A sad closing catastrophe [Engl. Vers. to the uttermost]. The same phrase occurs at Luk 18:5. Under Herod Agrippa the Jewish state had begun again to flourish, but after his death, Act 12:23, the Roman procurators returned. Cumanus and Felix, and their successors, more and more harassed the Jews. This epistle was written in the year of our Lord 48, and about that time a tumult arose at Jerusalem during the feast of the passover, and an immense multitude were slain: some say, more than thirty thousand. The wrath of God closely pursued these miserable men, and εἰς τέλος, [at the last] at length, destroyed their city and temple.