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.
to fill up their sins alway: It may not have been a conscious or intentional thing on their part but the end result is that the Jewish opponents of the gospel are heaping up sins for which they would one day be accountable. "Alway" "refers to an uninterrupted succession of rebellious acts" (Hogg and Vine 80).