warning he had given them—“as also I did foretell you;” that is, when he had been with them; both during his first and second sojourn, he had forewarned them as he now is writing to them. The theme of forewarning then and now was— Ὅτι οἳ τὰ τοιαῦτα πράσσοντες βασιλείαν Θεοῦ οὐ κληρονομήσουσι—“that they who are doing such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” The contents of the προλέγω are prefaced by ὅτι, and described by τὰ τοιαῦτα—such things as these—the sins referred