He also says of Israel, All the day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.
a stone over which men stumble and a rock of offence; they stumble over it in their disobedience to God's word. Such is their appointed doom.
by hindering us from speaking words of salvation to the Gentiles. So they would fill up the measure of their sins to the last drop! But the Wrath is on them to the bitter end!
and that repentance and the remission of sins must be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.