the key issue here is the existing context.41 The whole focus of the context is on Jews who wrongly use the law to establish their own righteousness. Verse 4 makes an experiential statement regarding this state of affairs which we paraphrase as follows: Christ is the end of using the law to establish one’s own righteousness for those who believe. Some lodge a complaint against the exegesis we suggest on the grounds that εἰς δικαιοσύνην is closer to Χριστός than it is to τέλος γὰρ νόμου.42 But