1 Corinthians 2
1 My fellow believers, when I came to you, I proclaimed to you the message that God had revealed to me. But I did not proclaim it using eloquent words that would make people think highly of me, nor did I argue in a way that unbelievers would think was very wise.
兄弟たちよ。わたしもまた、あなたがたの所に行ったとき、神のあかしを宣べ伝えるのに、すぐれた言葉や知恵を用いなかった。
2 I did that because I decided that I would speak only about Jesus Christ. Specifically, I told you [what he accomplished for us when] he was killed by being nailed {[when they] killed him by nailing him} to a cross.
なぜなら、わたしはイエス・キリスト、しかも十字架につけられたキリスト以外のことは、あなたがたの間では何も知るまいと、決心したからである。
3 Furthermore, when I was with you, I felt that I was not adequate [to do what Christ wanted me to do]. I was afraid [that I would not be able to do it], and because of that I was trembling very much.
わたしがあなたがたの所に行った時には、弱くかつ恐れ、ひどく不安であった。
4 When I taught you and preached to you, I did not speak words that [unbelievers would consider] [IRO] wise in order to convince them that my message was true. Instead, [God’s] Spirit showed that it was true by [enabling me to] powerfully [perform miracles].
そして、わたしの言葉もわたしの宣教も、巧みな知恵の言葉によらないで、霊と力との証明によったのである。
5 [I taught and preached that way] in order that you might believe [my message], not because you heard words that people [considered to be] [IRO] wise, but [because you recognized] God’s power.
それは、あなたがたの信仰が人の知恵によらないで、神の力によるものとなるためであった。
6 I do teach a message that people who are [spiritually] mature [consider to] be wise. But I do not teach a message that unbelievers [consider to be] wise. I also do not teach a message that unbelieving rulers in the world consider to be wise. [What they think about it does not matter], because [some day] (they will lose their power/not be ruling any more). (aiōn g165)
しかしわたしたちは、円熟している者の間では、知恵を語る。この知恵は、この世の者の知恵ではなく、この世の滅び行く支配者たちの知恵でもない。 (aiōn g165)
7 Instead, I teach about what God planned wisely [long ago]. It is something that people did not know about previously because [God] did not reveal it previously. But God determined before he created the world that he would greatly benefit us by his wise plan. (aiōn g165)
むしろ、わたしたちが語るのは、隠された奥義としての神の知恵である。それは神が、わたしたちの受ける栄光のために、世の始まらぬ先から、あらかじめ定めておかれたものである。 (aiōn g165)
8 None of those who rule this world knew that wise plan. If they had known it, they would not have nailed our wonderful Lord to the cross. (aiōn g165)
この世の支配者たちのうちで、この知恵を知っていた者は、ひとりもいなかった。もし知っていたなら、栄光の主を十字架につけはしなかったであろう。 (aiōn g165)
9 But [we believers need to remember these words that a prophet] wrote [in the Scriptures]: Things that no one has ever seen, things that no one ever heard, things that no one ever thought could happen, those are the things that God has prepared for those who love him.
しかし、聖書に書いてあるとおり、「目がまだ見ず、耳がまだ聞かず、人の心に思い浮びもしなかったことを、神は、ご自分を愛する者たちのために備えられた」のである。
10 God has caused his Spirit to reveal those things to us [(inc)] believers. His Spirit can do that because he knows thoroughly the meaning of all things. He even knows the things about God that are very difficult to understand.
そして、それを神は、御霊によってわたしたちに啓示して下さったのである。御霊はすべてのものをきわめ、神の深みまでもきわめるのだからである。
11 Only a person himself (OR, a person’s spirit) knows what he is thinking. Similarly, only God’s Spirit knows what God is thinking.
いったい、人間の思いは、その内にある人間の霊以外に、だれが知っていようか。それと同じように神の思いも、神の御霊以外には、知るものはない。
12 It was not the ideas that unbelievers teach that we accepted. Instead, it was the Spirit who came from God that we received, in order that we might know the things that God has freely done for us.
ところが、わたしたちが受けたのは、この世の霊ではなく、神からの霊である。それによって、神から賜わった恵みを悟るためである。
13 Those are the things that I tell you about. As I do that, I do not tell you things that someone [whom others thought] was [IRO] wise taught me. Instead, I tell you truths that [God’s] Spirit taught [me], and I explain those spiritual truths to people whose thinking is guided by God’s Spirit (OR, I teach spiritual [truths to] spiritual [people]).
この賜物について語るにも、わたしたちは人間の知恵が教える言葉を用いないで、御霊の教える言葉を用い、霊によって霊のことを解釈するのである。
14 Those who are unbelievers reject the truths that [God’s] Spirit teaches us [(inc)], because they [consider those truths to be] foolish. They cannot understand them, because it is God’s Spirit who enables us to evaluate those truths correctly, [and those people do not have God’s Spirit].
生れながらの人は、神の御霊の賜物を受けいれない。それは彼には愚かなものだからである。また、御霊によって判断されるべきであるから、彼はそれを理解することができない。
15 We who have God’s Spirit can judge correctly the [value of] all truths [that the Spirit reveals], but [unbelievers] cannot evaluate us correctly.
しかし、霊の人は、すべてのものを判断するが、自分自身はだれからも判断されることはない。
16 As [one of our prophets wrote: ] No human [RHQ] has known what the Lord is thinking. No human [RHQ] is able to instruct him. But we believers are able to think about things [MTY] in the way that Christ thinks about them.
「だれが主の思いを知って、彼を教えることができようか」。しかし、わたしたちはキリストの思いを持っている。
