Hebrews 12
1 Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
第三款 既往の教訓を信者の現状に應用す 然れば我等も、斯く夥しき證人の雲に圍まれたれば、一切の荷と纏へる罪とを卸して、
2 looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
我等の信仰の指導者に在し完成者に在すイエズスに鑑みつつ、忍耐を以て我等に備はれる勝負に走るべし。即ちイエズスは曾て、己に備はれる喜に代へて、辱を厭はず、十字架を忍び給ひ、而して神の玉座の右に坐し給ふ。
3 For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
汝等倦みて己が心の弱らざらん為に、己に對する惡人のさしも甚しかりし反抗を忍び給ひし者を回想せよ。
4 You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
蓋汝等の罪に對ひて戰ふに、未だ血を流す程に抵抗せし事なし。
5 You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
汝等は又、子に於るが如くに告げらるる勧を忘れたり。曰く、「我子よ、主の懲を疎畧にすることなく、之に懲らされ奉る時倦む事勿れ、
6 for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
主は其寵み給ふ人を懲らし、総て子として受け給ふ者を鞭ち給へばなり」と。
7 It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?
汝等懲を忍べ、神の汝等に對し給ふは、恰も子等に於るが如し。誰か父に懲らされざる子あらん、
8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.
汝等若凡ての人の受くる懲の外に在らば、是私生児にして正子に非ざるべし。
9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
且我等は肉身の父に懲らされて、尚之を尊敬しつつありしものを、况や霊の父には歸服して生命を得べきに非ずや。
10 For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
肉身の父等は、少き日數の間に心の儘に我等を懲らしたるに、霊の父の懲らし給ふは、己が聖徳を蒙らしめて我等を益し給はん為なり。
11 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
総て懲は其當時に在りては、喜ばしく見えず、悲しきが如くなれども、後には之を以て鍛錬せられたる人に、義の平穏なる果を結ぶものなり。
12 Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
然れば汝等、萎えたる手、弱りたる膝を立てよ、
13 and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
誰も足萎えて踏外す事なく、寧醫されん為に己の足踏を直くせよ。
14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
汝等凡ての人と和合し、聖徳を追求せよ、之なくては誰も主を見奉る事を得じ。
15 looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and many be defiled by it,
汝等注意して、一人も恩寵より退く事なく、如何なる苦き根にもあれ、生出でて妨を為し、多くの人を汚すことなからしめ、
16 lest there be any sexually immoral person or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
一人たりとも、食物の為に長子権を売りしエザウの如く、私通者不敬者と成る事なからしめよ。
17 For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.
蓋彼が、後に祝福を継がん事を望みしも退けられ、涙を以て回復を求めたれど其餘地を得ざりしは、汝等の知るべき所なり。
18 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
汝等の近づけるは、触れ得べき山、燃ゆる火、黒雲、暗黒、暴風、
19 the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,
溂叭の音、又言の聲には非ず。彼聲を聞きし人々は、言の己に語られざらん事を願へり。
20 for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned”.
蓋獣すらも、山に触れなば石を擲たるべしと命ぜられたるを忍び得ず、
21 So fearful was the appearance that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”
見ゆる物甚だ恐ろしくして、モイゼも、我恐怖慄けり、と言へり。
22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
然るに汝等の近づきたるは、シヨンの山と、活き給へる神の都なる天のエルザレムと、億萬の天使の喜ばしき集會と、
23 to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
天に其名を記されたる長子等の教會と、萬民の審判者に在す神と、全うせられし義人等の霊と、
24 to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
新約の仲介者に在すイエズスと、アベルの血に優りて能く言ふ血の沃がるる事と是なり。
25 See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
汝等慎みて、言ひ給ふを否むこと勿れ。蓋彼等は地上に言ひ給へるを否みて迯れざりしなれば、况て天より言ひ給ふを退くる我等の迯るべけんや。
26 whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.”
彼時は其聲地を動かしたりしに、今は約して曰はく、「我唯に地をのみならず天をも尚一度動かさん」と。
27 This phrase, “Yet once more” signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.
斯の如く「尚一度」と曰へるは、震動せざる事物の永存せん為に、震動せし事物の、造られたるものとして廃るべきを示し給ふなり。
28 Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,
然れば震動せざる國を受けたるが故に、我等は感謝し奉りて、御意に適ふ様、恐れ畏みて神に事へ奉るべし。
29 for our God is a consuming fire.
是我等の神は焼盡す火にて在せばなり。
