Romans 9
1 I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit
我キリストに在りて眞をいひ虚僞を言はず、
2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
我に大なる憂あることと心に絶えざる痛あることとを、我が良心も聖 靈によりて證す。
3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh
もし我が兄弟わが骨肉の爲にならんには、我みづから詛はれてキリストに棄てらるるも亦ねがふ所なり。
4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
彼 等はイスラエル人にして、彼らには神の子とせられたることと、榮光と、もろもろの契約と、授けられたる律法と、禮拜と、もろもろの約束とあり。
5 of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen. (aiōn g165)
先祖たちも彼 等のものなり、肉によれば、キリストも彼 等より出で給ひたり。キリストは萬物の上にあり、永遠に讃むべき神なり、アァメン。 (aiōn g165)
6 But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.
それ神の言は廢りたるに非ず。イスラエルより出づる者みなイスラエルなるに非ず。
7 Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”
また彼 等はアブラハムの裔なればとて皆その子たるに非ず『イサクより出づる者は、なんぢの裔と稱へらるべし』とあり。
8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.
即ち肉の子らは神の子らにあらず、ただ約束の子 等のみ其の裔と認めらるるなり。
9 For this is a word of promise: “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”
約束の御言は是なり、曰く『時ふたたび巡り來らば、我きたりてサラに男子あらん』と。
10 Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.
然のみならず、レベカも我らの先祖イサク一人によりて孕りたる時、
11 For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,
その子いまだ生れず、善も惡もなさぬ間に、神の選の御旨は動かず、
12 it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”
行爲によらで召す者によらん爲に『兄は次弟に事ふべし』とレベカに宣へり。
13 Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
『われヤコブを愛しエザウを憎めり』と録されたる如し。
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!
さらば何をか言はん、神には不義あるか。決して然らず。
15 For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
モーセに言ひ給ふ『われ憐まんとする者をあはれみ、慈悲を施さんとする者に慈悲を施すべし』と。
16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
されば欲する者にも由らず、走る者にも由らず、ただ憐みたまふ神に由るなり。
17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
パロにつきて聖書に言ひ給ふ『わが汝を起したるは此の爲なり、即ち我が能力を汝によりて顯し、且わが名の全世界に傳へられん爲なり』と。
18 So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
されば神はその憐まんと欲する者を憐み、その頑固にせんと欲する者を頑固にし給ふなり。
19 You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”
さらば汝あるいは我に言はん『神なんぞなほ人を咎め給ふか、誰かその御定に悖る者あらん』
20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
ああ人よ、なんぢ誰なれば神に言ひ逆ふか、造られしもの造りたる者に對ひて『なんぢ何ぞ我を斯く造りし』と言ふべきか。
21 Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?
陶工は同じ土塊をもて、此を貴きに用ふる器とし、彼を賤しきに用ふる器とするの權なからんや。
22 What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
もし神、怒をあらはし權力を示さんと思しつつも、なほ大なる寛容をもて、滅亡に備れる怒の器を忍び、
23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory—
また光榮のために預じめ備へ給ひし憐憫の器に對ひて、その榮光の富を示さんとし給ひしならば如何に。
24 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
この憐憫の器は我等にして、ユダヤ人の中よりのみならず、異邦人の中よりも召し給ひしものなり。
25 As he says also in Hosea, “I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.”
ホゼヤの書に『我わが民たらざる者を我が民と呼び、愛せられざる者を愛せらるる者と呼ばん、
26 “It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”
「なんぢら我が民にあらず」と言ひし處にて、彼らは活ける神の子と呼ばるべし』と宣へる如し。
27 Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;
イザヤもイスラエルに就きて叫べり『イスラエルの子孫の數は海の砂のごとくなりとも、救はるるはただ殘の者のみならん。
28 for he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.”
主、地の上に御言をなし了へ、これを遂げ、これを速かにし給はん』
29 As Isaiah has said before, “Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.”
また『萬軍の主われらに裔を遺し給はずば、我等ソドムの如くになり、ゴモラと等しかりしならん』とイザヤの預言せしが如し。
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
然らば何をか言はん、義を追ひ求めざりし異邦人は義を得たり、即ち信仰による義なり。
31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
イスラエルは義の律法を追ひ求めたれど、その律法に到らざりき。
32 Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
何の故か、かれらは信仰によらず、行爲によりて追ひ求めたる故なり。彼らは躓く石に躓きたり。
33 even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”
録して『視よ、我つまづく石さまたぐる岩をシオンに置く、之に依頼む者は辱しめられじ』とあるが如し。
