Romans 10:4

For Christ, &c. The connexion is that the conduct of the Jews was a total mistake of their own Revelation; forHe whom they rejected was no accidental or alien intruder, but "the End of the Law." The ver. may be closely, and better, rendered; For the end of the Law is Christ, unto righteousness, to everyone that believeth; the whole idea conveyed by the words from "Christ" to "believeth" being the "end of the Law."

the end of the law Cp. for the phrase 1 Peter 1:9, "the end of your faith;" i.e. what your faith leads up to. So here Christ our Justification was what the Law (the preceptive Revelation by Moses) led up to, both prophetically by its types and predictions, and preparatively by its sin-discovering and inexorable demands. (See for the latter respect, ch. 7.) The words are capable of the sense "the closeof the Law," i.e. "He who brings it to an end." But this is not the aspect of the matter in this context, nor in the Epistle as a whole.

for righteousness unto righteousness; in order to be "The Lord our righteousness" (Jeremiah 23:6). See on Romans 1:17; &c.