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1 愛する者よ、われ今この第二の書を汝らに書き贈り、第一なると之とをもて汝らに思ひ出させ、その潔よき心を勵まし、
Consider, most beloved, this second epistle which I am writing to you, in which I stir up, by admonition, your sincere mind,
2 聖なる預言者たちの預じめ云ひし言、および汝らの使徒たちの傳へし主なる救主の誡命を憶えさせんとす。
so that you may be mindful of those words that I preached to you from the holy prophets, and of the precepts of the Apostles of your Lord and Savior.
3 汝 等まづ知れ、末の世には嘲る者 嘲笑をもて來り、おのが慾に隨ひて歩み、
Know this first: that in the last days there will arrive deceitful mockers, walking according to their own desires,
4 かつ言はん『主の來りたまふ約束は何處にありや、先祖たちの眠りしのち、萬のもの開闢の初と等しくして變らざるなり』と。
saying: “Where is his promise or his advent? For from the time that the fathers have slept, all things have continued just as they were from the beginning of creation.”
5 彼らは殊更に次の事を知らざるなり、即ち古へ神の言によりて天あり、地は水より出で水によりて成立ちしが、
But they willfully ignore this: that the heavens existed first, and that the earth, from water and through water, was established by the Word of God.
6 その時の世は之により水に淹はれて滅びたり。
By water, the former world then, having been inundated with water, perished.
7 されど同じ御言によりて今の天と地とは蓄へられ、火にて燒かれん爲に、敬虔ならぬ人々の審判と滅亡との日まで保たるるなり。
But the heavens and the earth that exist now were restored by the same Word, being reserved unto fire on the day of judgment, and unto the perdition of impious men.
8 愛する者よ、なんぢら此の一事を忘るな。主の御前には一日は千年のごとく、千年は一日のごとし。
Yet truly, let this one thing not escape notice, most beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like one day.
9 主その約束を果すに遲きは、或 人の遲しと思ふが如きにあらず、ただ一人の亡ぶるをも望み給はず、凡ての人の悔改に至らんことを望みて汝らを永く忍び給ふなり。
The Lord is not delaying his promise, as some imagine, but he does act patiently for your sake, not wanting anyone to perish, but wanting all to be turned back to penance.
10 されど主の日は盜人のごとく來らん、その日には天とどろきて去り、もろもろの天體は燒け崩れ、地とその中にある工とは燒け盡きん。
Then the day of the Lord shall arrive like a thief. On that day, the heavens shall pass away with great violence, and truly the elements shall be dissolved with heat; then the earth, and the works that are within it, shall be completely burned up.
11 かく此 等のものはみな崩るべければ、汝 等いかに潔き行状と敬虔とをもて、
Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what kind of people ought you to be? In behavior and in piety, be holy,
12 神の日の來るを待ち之を速かにせんことを勉むべきにあらずや、その日には天 燃え崩れ、もろもろの天體 燒け溶けん。
waiting for, and hurrying toward, the advent of the day of the Lord, by which the burning heavens shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt from the heat of the fire.
13 されど我らは神の約束によりて、義の住むところの新しき天と新しき地とを待つ。
Yet truly, in accord with his promises, we are looking forward to the new heavens and the new earth, in which justice lives.
14 この故に愛する者よ、汝 等これを待てば、神の前に汚點なく瑕なく安然に在らんことを勉めよ。
Therefore, most beloved, while awaiting these things, be diligent, so that you may be found to be immaculate and unassailable before him, in peace.
15 且われらの主の寛容を救なりと思へ、これは我らの愛する兄弟パウロも、その與へられたる智慧にしたがひ曾て汝らに書き贈りし如し。
And let the longsuffering of our Lord be considered salvation, as also our most beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you,
16 彼はその凡ての書にも此 等のことに就きて語る、その中には悟りがたき所あり、無學のもの心の定らぬ者は、他の聖書のごとく之をも強ひ釋きて自ら滅亡を招くなり。
just as he also spoke in all of his epistles about these things. In these, there are certain things which are difficult to understand, which the unlearned and the unsteady distort, as they also do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
17 されば愛する者よ、なんぢら預じめ之を知れば、愼みて無法の者の迷にさそはれて己が堅き心を失はず、
But since you, brothers, know these things beforehand, be cautious, lest by being drawn into the error of the foolish, you may fall away from your own steadfastness.
The World is Destroyed by Water
