forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
It is a gross mistake to make anything racial out of the sad words in this passage.  Just as Israel had their "times," marked by innumerable mercies from heaven, so it has been with the Gentiles; but our "times" too are also in all probability drawing to an end; and a fate even worse than that which destroyed Jerusalem looms threateningly in the not-too-distant future- unless, and God grant that there may be, a wholesale turning of the people of our day to the Lord Jesus Christ occurs.