2 Thessalonians 2
1 But we ask you, brothers, concerning the advent of our Lord Jesus Christ and of our gathering to him,
兄弟等よ、我主イエズス、キリストの再臨に就き、又我等が之と一致すべき事に就きては、
2 that you not be readily disturbed or terrified in your minds, by any spirit, or word, or epistle, supposedly sent from us, claiming that the day of the Lord is close by.
或は霊により、或は我等より出でしが如き物語、或は書簡によりて、主の日迫れりとて汝等が容易く本心より動かされず、又驚かされざらん事を希ふ。
3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For this cannot be, unless the apostasy will have arrived first, and the man of sin will have been revealed, the son of perdition,
誰にも決して欺かるること勿れ、蓋先棄教の事來りて、罪の人即ち亡の子顕るるに非ずば、[主の日は來らじ]。
4 who is an adversary to, and who is lifted up above, all that is called God or that is worshipped, so much so that he sits in the temple of God, presenting himself as if he were God.
彼は反對して一切の所謂神、又は禮拝物に激しく立逆らひ、神殿に坐して自ら神たるが如く己を示すにすら至るべし。
5 Do you not recall that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?
我が尚汝等の中に在りし時、是等の事を言ひ居たりしを、汝等は記憶せざるか。
6 And now you know what it is that holds him back, so that he may be revealed in his own time.
彼の時期に至りて顕れしめん為に今彼を止むる者の何たるかは、汝等の知る所なり。
7 For the mystery of iniquity is already at work. And only one now holds back, and will continue to hold back, until he is taken from our midst.
蓋不義の奥義は既に活動せり、但今之を止めつつある者の除かるる迄なり。
8 And then that iniquitous one shall be revealed, the one whom the Lord Jesus shall bring to ruin with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy at the brightness of his return:
其時彼の不義者顕され、主イエズス御口の息を以て之を殺し、己が降臨の光榮を以て之を亡ぼし給ふべし。
9 him whose advent is accompanied by the works of Satan, with every kind of power and signs and false miracles,
彼者の來るはサタンの勢力に由る事にして、一切の異能の業と徴と僞りの奇蹟と、
10 and with every seduction of iniquity, toward those who are perishing because they have not accepted the love of truth, so that they may be saved.
不義の誑惑とを盡して亡ぶる人々に當らん。是彼等が救はるる様、眞理の愛を受けざりし故なり。然れば神其中に惑を働かしめ給ひて、彼等は偽を信ずるに至らん。
11 For this reason, God will send to them works of deception, so that they may believe in lies,
12 in order that all those who have not believed in the truth, but who have consented to iniquity, may be judged.
是眞理を信ぜずして不義に同意したる人々の悉く審判せられん為なり。
13 Yet we must always give thanks to God for you, brothers, beloved of God, because God has chosen you as first-fruits for salvation, by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.
然れど主に愛せられ奉る兄弟等よ、我等は常に汝等の為に神に感謝し奉るべきなり、其は神、[聖]霊によれる成聖と眞理の信仰とによりて救霊を得しむべく、素より汝等を選み給ひたればなり。
14 He has also called you into truth through our Gospel, unto the acquisition of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
我等の福音を以て汝等を之に召し給ひしも、我主イエズス、キリストの光榮を得しめ給はん為なり。
15 And so, brothers, stand firm, and hold to the traditions that you have learned, whether by word or by our epistle.
然れば兄弟等よ、毅然として我等の或は物語、或は書簡に由りて習ひし傳を守れ。
16 So may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who has loved us and who has given us an everlasting consolation and good hope in grace, (aiōnios g166)
願はくは我主イエズス、キリスト御自ら、并に我等を愛し給ひて恩寵による永遠の慰と善き希望とを賜ひし我父にて在す神、 (aiōnios g166)
17 exhort your hearts and confirm you in every good word and deed.
汝等の心を勧めて凡ての善き業と言とに堅うし給はん事を。
