ローマ人への手紙 11
1 されば我いふ、神はその民を棄て給ひしか。決して然らず。我もイスラエル人にしてアブラハムの裔ベニヤミンの族の者なり。
I ask, then, ‘Has God rejected his people?’ Heaven forbid! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 神はその預じめ知り給ひし民を棄て給ひしにあらず。汝らエリヤに就きて聖書に云へることを知らぬか、彼イスラエルを神に訴へて言ふ、
God has not rejected his people, whom he chose from the first. Have you forgotten the words of scripture in the story of Elijah – how he appeals to God against Israel?
3 『主よ、彼らは汝の預言者たちを殺し、なんぢの祭壇を毀ち、我ひとり遺りたるに、亦わが生命をも求めんとするなり』と。
‘Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have pulled down your altars, and I only am left; and now they are eager to take my life.’
4 然るに御答は何と云へるか『われバアルに膝を屈めぬ者、七 千 人を我がために遺し置けり』と。
But what was the divine response? ‘I have kept for myself seven thousand who have never bowed the knee to Baal.’
5 斯くのごとく今もなほ恩惠の選によりて遺れる者あり。
And so in our own time, too, there is to be found a remnant of our nation selected by God in love.
6 もし恩惠によるとせば、もはや行爲によるにあらず。然らずば恩惠はもはや恩惠たらざるべし。
But if in love, then it is not as a result of obedience. Otherwise love would cease to be love.
7 さらば如何に、イスラエルはその求むる所を得ず、選ばれたる者は之を得たり、その他の者は鈍くせられたり。
What follows from this? Why, that Israel as a nation failed to secure what it was seeking, while those whom God selected did secure it.
8 『神は今日に至るまで、彼らに眠れる心、見えぬ目、聞えぬ耳を與へ給へり』と録されたるが如し。
The rest grew callous; as scripture says – ‘God has given them a deadness of mind – eyes that are not to see and ears that are not to hear – and it is so to this very day.’
9 ダビデも亦いふ『かれらの食卓は羂となれ、網となれ、つまづきとなれ、報となれ、
David, too, says – ‘May their feasts prove a snare and a trap to them – a hindrance and a retribution;
10 その眼は眩みて見えずなれ、常にその背を屈めしめ給へ』
may their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; and do you always make their backs to bend.’
11 されば我いふ、彼らの躓きしは倒れんが爲なりや。決して然らず、反つて其の落度によりて救は異邦人に及べり、これイスラエルを勵まさん爲なり。
I ask then – ‘Was their stumbling to result in their fall?’ Heaven forbid! On the contrary, through their falling away salvation has reached the Gentiles, to stir the rivalry of Israel.
12 もし彼らの落度、世の富となり、その衰微、異邦人の富となりたらんには、まして彼らの數 滿つるに於てをや。
And, if their falling away has enriched the world, and their failure has enriched the Gentiles, how much more will result from their full restoration!
13 われ異邦人なる汝 等にいふ、我は異邦人の使徒たるによりて己が職を重んず。
But I am speaking to you who were Gentiles.
14 これ或は我が骨肉の者を勵まし、その中の幾許かを救はん爲なり。
Being myself an apostle to the Gentiles, I exalt my office, in the hope that I may stir my countrymen to rivalry, and so save some of them.
15 もし彼らの棄てらるること世の平和となりたらんには、其の受け納れらるるは、死人の中より活くると等しからずや。
For, if their being cast aside has meant the reconciliation of the world, what will their reception mean, but life from the dead?
16 もし初穗の粉 潔くば、パンの團塊も潔く、樹の根 潔くば、其の枝も潔からん。
If the first handful of dough is holy, so is the whole mass, and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 若しオリブの幾許の枝きり落されて野のオリブなる汝、その中に接がれ、共にその樹の液汁ある根に與らば、
Some, however, of the branches were broken off, and you, who were only a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and came to share with them the root which is the source of the richness of the cultivated olive.
18 かの枝に對ひて誇るな、たとひ誇るとも汝は根を支へず、根は反つて汝を支ふるなり。
Yet do not exult over the other branches. But, if you do exult over them, remember that you do not support the root, but that the root supports you.
19 なんぢ或は言はん『枝の折られしは我が接がれん爲なり』と。
But branches, you will say, were broken off, so that I might be grafted in.
20 實に然り、彼らは不 信によりて折られ、汝は信仰によりて立てるなり、高ぶりたる思をもたず、反つて懼れよ。
True, it was because of their want of faith that they were broken off, and it is because of your faith that you are standing. Do not think too highly of yourself, but beware.
21 もし神、原 樹の枝を惜み給はざりしならば、汝をも惜み給はじ。
For, if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
22 神の仁慈と、その嚴肅とを見よ。嚴肅は倒れし者にあり、仁慈はその仁慈に止る汝にあり、若しその仁慈に止らずば、汝も切り取らるべし。
See, then, both the goodness and the severity of God – his severity towards those who fell, and his goodness towards you, provided that you continue to confide in that goodness; otherwise you, also, will be cut off.
23 彼らも若し不 信に止らずば、接がるることあらん、神は再び彼らを接ぎ得給ふなり。
And they, too, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in; for God has it in his power to graft them in again.
24 なんぢ生來の野のオリブより切り取られ、その生來に悖りて善きオリブに接がれたらんには、まして原 樹のままなる枝は己がオリブに接がれざらんや。
If you were cut off from your natural stock – a wild olive – and were grafted, contrary to the course of nature, on a good olive, much more will they – the natural branches – be grafted back into their parent tree.
25 兄弟よ、われ汝らが自己を聰しとする事なからん爲に、この奧義を知らざるを欲せず、即ち幾許のイスラエルの鈍くなれるは、異邦人の入り來りて數 滿つるに及ぶ時までなり。
My friends, so that you don’t think too highly of yourselves, I want you to recognize the truth, hitherto hidden, that the callousness which has come over Israel is only partial, and will continue only until the whole Gentile world has been gathered in.
26 かくしてイスラエルは悉とく救はれん。録して『救ふ者シオンより出で來りて、ヤコブより不虔を取り除かん、
And then all Israel will be saved. As scripture says – ‘From Zion will come the Deliverer; he will banish ungodliness from Jacob.
27 われその罪を除くときに彼らに立つる我が契約は是なり』とあるが如し。
And they will see the fulfillment of my covenant, when I have taken away their sins.’
28 福音につきて云へば、汝 等のために彼らは敵とせられ、選につきて云へば、先祖たちの爲に彼らは愛せらるるなり。
From the standpoint of the good news, the Jews are God’s enemies for your sake; but from the standpoint of God’s selection, they are dear to him for the sake of the patriarchs.
29 それ神の賜物と召とは變ることなし。
For God never regrets his gifts or his call.
30 汝ら前には神に從はざりしが、今は彼らの不順によりて憐まれたる如く、
Just as you at one time were disobedient to him, but have now found mercy in the day of their disobedience;
31 彼らも汝らの受くる憐憫によりて憐まれん爲に、今は從はざるなり。
so, too, they have now become disobedient in your day of mercy, in order that they also in their turn may now find mercy.
For God has given all alike over to disobedience, that to all alike he may show mercy. (eleēsē g1653)
33 ああ神の智慧と知識との富は深いかな、その審判は測り難く、その途は尋ね難し。
Oh! The unfathomable wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments, how untraceable his ways! Yes –
34 『たれか主の心を知りし、誰かその議士となりし。
ho has ever comprehended the mind of the Lord? Who has ever become his counsellor?
35 たれか先づ主に與へて其の報を受けんや』
Or who has first given to him, so that he may claim a reward?
