1Thess 2:16

“For if salvation must be preached to the whole world, and they oppose this, then they are common enemies of the world. Only extraordinary envy would hinder the common salvation. This, he says, they did and continue to do to the ancient prophets, then to Christ, and finally to us as well, in order to show that they are hastening to reach the full measure of sins, their utmost limit. That is, for them there will no longer be what was before; there will be no return from captivity, nor will they take possession of their land, but to the end the wrath of God will remain upon them. The word "wrath" (ἡ ὀργή) with the article shows that they deserved it, that it was appointed and foretold. Having comforted the Thessalonians by pointing out that they have many fellow-partakers in trials, he now also comforts them by pointing out that their oppressors will be punished.”

“Thirdly, Paul considers their sin in its relation to the whole human race, when he says: and oppose all men. "His hand against every man and every man's hand against him" (Gen. 16:12). And they are antagonistic, because they prohibit and impede the preaching to the Gentiles, and also the conversion of the Gentiles. In Acts 10 and 11 Peter is criticized for having gone to Cornelius; also in Luke 15 the elder son, the Jewish people, is disturbed because the younger son, the Gentile people, is received by the father. "Woe to him who says to a father, 'What are you begetting'" (Is. 45:10). "Would that all the Lord's people were prophets" (Num. 11:29). The reason for this sin is found in the divine permission, by which God wills that they fill up the measure of their sins. Indeed, for all things which come about, either good or bad, there is a certain measure, because nothing is infinite; and the measure of all these things is in God's foreknowledge. The measure of good things is what it prepares, for "grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ's gift" (Eph. 4:7); the measure of evil things, however, is what it permits, for if some are evil, they are not as evil as they want, but as God permits. And, therefore, they live until they attain that which God permits: "Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers" (Matt. 23:32). So Paul says: so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. For after the suffering of Christ, God gave the Jews forty years to repent, but they were not converted; rather they multiplied their sins. God did not permit this to go on, so Paul states: but God's wrath has come upon them until the end. "For great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us" (2 Kings 22:13). "For great distress shall be upon the earth and wrath upon this people" (Lk. 21:23). And you should not think that this wrath shall last for one hundred years only, but until the end of the world, when all the Gentiles will have embraced the Christian religion, and then all of Israel shall be saved, as it appears from Rom. 10, Lk. 19:44, 21:6, and Matt. 24:2: "There will not be left here one stone upon another, that will not be thrown down."”