2 Peter 3
1 My loved ones, this is now my second letter to you, and in this as in the first, I am attempting to keep your true minds awake;
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、
2 So that you may keep in mind the words of the holy prophets in the past, and the law of the Lord and Saviour which was given to you by his Apostles.
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。
3 Having first of all the knowledge that in the last days there will be men who, ruled by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things,
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、
4 Saying, Where is the hope of his coming? From the death of the fathers till now everything has gone on as it was from the making of the world.
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。
5 But in taking this view they put out of their minds the memory that in the old days there was a heaven, and an earth lifted out of the water and circled by water, by the word of God;
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、
6 And that the world which then was came to an end through the overflowing of the waters.
その時の世は之により水に淹はれて滅びたり。
7 But the present heaven and the present earth have been kept for destruction by fire, which is waiting for them on the day of the judging and destruction of evil men.
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。
8 But, my loved ones, keep in mind this one thing, that with the Lord one day is the same as a thousand years, and a thousand years are no more than one day.
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。
9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his word, as he seems to some, but he is waiting in mercy for you, not desiring the destruction of any, but that all may be turned from their evil ways.
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。
10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up.
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。
11 Seeing then that all these things are coming to such an end, what sort of persons is it right for you to be, in all holy behaviour and righteousness,
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、
12 Looking for and truly desiring the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will come to an end through fire, and the substance of the earth will be changed by the great heat?
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。
13 But having faith in his word, we are looking for a new heaven and a new earth, which will be the resting-place of righteousness.
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。
14 For this reason, my loved ones, as you are looking for these things, take great care that when he comes you may be in peace before him, free from sin and every evil thing.
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。
15 And be certain that the long waiting of the Lord is for salvation; even as our brother Paul has said in his letters to you, from the wisdom which was given to him;
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。
16 And as he said in all his letters, which had to do with these things; in which are some hard sayings, so that, like the rest of the holy Writings, they are twisted by those who are uncertain and without knowledge, to the destruction of their souls.
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。
17 For this reason, my loved ones, having knowledge of these things before they take place, take care that you are not turned away by the error of the uncontrolled, so falling from your true faith.
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、
The Great Flood
