Then Paul and Barnabas grew bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing you put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
it is not put as affronting (though) it is in fact what they did in the case of the prophets: Talk not to us, said they, with talk— Isaiah 30:10: but since you put it from you— it, he says, not us: for the affront on your part is not to us. For that none may take it as an expression of their piety (that he says,) You judge not yourselves worthy, therefore he first says, You put it from you, and then, We turn unto the Gentiles. The expression is full of gentleness. He does not say, We abandon you, but so that it is possible— he would say— that we may also turn hither again: and this too is not the consequence of the affront from you, for so has (the Lord) commanded us.—
