JMNT(i)
6 Besides that, those agents (or: folks having or bringing a message)
not guarding (keeping watch over; maintaining)
the beginning of themselves (or: the rule of themselves),
but to the contrary, after leaving away from (= abandoning)
the personal dwelling place (one's own abode or habitation),
He has guarded, kept watch over and maintained under gloom (or: thick darkness)
by imperceptible (or: in unobservable, but effecting-all)
bonds, with a view to a judging (a sifting and a separation for evaluating; a making of a distinction and a deciding)
of a great Day (or: pertaining to or whose source is a great day; or: which is [the] great Day).
7 As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities round about them [= Admah and Zeboyim –
cf Deut. 29:23],
in like manner (or: turn)
to them, being given to fornication and outlandish prostitution, and then going away after different flesh (= unnatural vice; or: = a different expression of alienation that was formed by the existing System),
are continuously lying before [
us as]
– an example (a specimen; an effect of a thing pointed out or presented to sight)
– continuing in undergoing an experience of justice (the Way pointed out; fairness and equity; what is right)
from fire pertaining to the ages (or: of eonian, or age-lasting, fire; of a fire of undetermined duration whose quality and character are the Age [of the Messiah]).
8 In like manner, indeed, these dreaming ones (folks continuing in sleep, or with imaginary experiences)
also pollute flesh (= their or others’ bodies; or: = the estranged human nature).
They are continuously setting aside lordship (or: ownership systems)
and are repeatedly blaspheming (speaking injuriously of and slandering; vilifying; obscuring the light of; misrepresenting)
reputations (or: opinions; notions; glories; manifestations which call forth praise).