JMNT(i)
2 For I am habitually testifying and giving evidence among them, because they continue possessing a zeal from God (or: For you see, I can repeatedly bear witness to and for them that they constantly hold God's zeal and they continuously have a boiling jealously and hot aspiration concerning God),
but however, not down from (or: on the level of and in accordance with)
full and accurate experiential knowledge, recognition or insight (
epi-gnosis).
3 For they, being continuously ignorant of God's Way pointed out (or: habitually failing to recognize the rightwisedness and fairness, which are God, and the right relationships from God in His covenant justice)
and constantly seeking to establish (to set and make to stand)
their own way pointed out (plan of rightness in relational dealings),
were not placed under, and humbly aligned to, God's Way pointed out (or: subjected to God's just path and plan of fairness, or arranged under the rightwisedness from God [= brought into God's covenant participation]),
4 for you see, Christ [is] an end of Law (or: for Christ [is] Law’s goal and destiny; for [the] Anointing [is] termination from [the] Law; for Christ [was the] final act of [the] Law)
[leading] into the Way pointed out in fair and equitable dealings, and rightwised [covenant] relationships of justice, to, for and in everyone habitually trusting and believing (or: because Christ [entering] into the pointed-out Way – in everyone normally exercising faith with conviction, and with each person remaining loyal – [is; brings] Law's climax).
5 For Moses is writing [
about]
the way pointed out (the fair and equitable dealings and right relationship) [
which is]
out of the Law [= Torah; some MSS read: from the midst of law],
that, "The person (human)
doing (performing)
the same things (or: these very things)
will be constantly living (passing his existence; exercising functions of life)
within them [some MSS: within it] (or: in them [or: it] he shall continue living and will be possessed of vitality).
" [
Lev. 18:5]