Hebrews 9
1 [To continue]: In the first [covenant, God] regulated how people [should perform] rituals, and [he told them to make] [MTY] a sanctuary.
さて、初めの契約にも、礼拝についてのさまざまな規定と、地上の聖所とがあった。
2 [That sanctuary] was a tent that [the Israelites] set up. In its outer room there was the lampstand and the table [on which they put] the bread that [the priests] presented [to God. That room] was called ‘the holy place’.
すなわち、まず幕屋が設けられ、その前の場所には燭台と机と供えのパンとが置かれていた。これが、聖所と呼ばれた。
3 Behind the curtain inside [the holy place] there was [another] room. That was called ‘the very holy place’.
また第二の幕の後に、別の場所があり、それは至聖所と呼ばれた。
4 It had an altar, [made from] gold, [for burning] incense. [It also had the chest which they called] the chest of the covenant. All its sides were covered with gold. In it was the golden pot which contained [pieces of the food they called] manna. [That was the food with which God miraculously fed the people before they entered the promised land]. In the chest there was also Aaron’s walking stick that budded [to prove that he was God’s true priest]. In the chest were also the stone tablets [on which God had written] the Ten Commandments.
そこには金の香壇と全面金でおおわれた契約の箱とが置かれ、その中にはマナのはいっている金のつぼと、芽を出したアロンのつえと、契約の石板とが入れてあり、
5 On top of [the chest] were [figures of] winged creatures [that symbolized God’s] glory. Their [wings] overshadowed the chest’s lid where [the high priest sprinkled the blood] (to [atone for/to forgive]) [those who had sinned. I] do not [need] to write about these things in detail now.
箱の上には栄光に輝くケルビムがあって、贖罪所をおおっていた。これらのことについては、今ここで、いちいち述べることができない。
6 After all those things were prepared {After they had prepared all those things like that} [in the two rooms of the tent], the [Jewish] priests habitually went into the outer [room of the] tent to perform their rituals.
これらのものが、以上のように整えられた上で、祭司たちは常に幕屋の前の場所にはいって礼拝をするのであるが、
7 But into the inner room, only the Supreme Priest [went], once a year. He always took [LIT] the blood [of animals that they had slaughtered]. He offered them [to God] for his own [sins] and for the sins that other people had committed. They included sins that they did not realize [were sinful].
幕屋の奥には大祭司が年に一度だけはいるのであり、しかも自分自身と民とのあやまちのためにささげる血をたずさえないで行くことはない。
8 By those things the Holy Spirit indicated that [just like God] did not reveal the way [for ordinary people] to enter into the inner room while the outer room still existed [MET], [similarly he did not reveal the way for ordinary people to enter the presence of God while the Jewish system of offering sacrifices was in effect].
それによって聖霊は、前方の幕屋が存在している限り、聖所にはいる道はまだ開かれていないことを、明らかに示している。
9 [The things that the priests did inside the outer room] [MTY] symbolized [what was true] during the time [when the first covenant was in effect]. According to [the first covenant] (OR, [In that outer room]), [priests] offered gifts and other sacrifices to God. But [by offering them], the people who brought them were unable to make themselves feel that they were no longer guilty for having sinned.
この幕屋というのは今の時代に対する比喩である。すなわち、供え物やいけにえはささげられるが、儀式にたずさわる者の良心を全うすることはできない。
10 [They brought those gifts and made those sacrifices] according to [regulations concerning] things to eat and drink, and [according to rules that required people to] wash various things. [God] declared that those regulations about our bodies were to be in effect until [he put into effect the new covenant]; that was a better system.
それらは、ただ食物と飲み物と種々の洗いごとに関する行事であって、改革の時まで課せられている肉の規定にすぎない。
11 But when Christ came as our Supreme Priest, [he brought] the good things that are now available. When he appeared, [he went into God’s presence in heaven. That is like a] [MET] very great and perfect tent not made by humans {which no human made} [SYN]; that is, it is not part of the world [God] created. It was better [than the tent Moses set up here on earth].
しかしキリストがすでに現れた祝福の大祭司としてこられたとき、手で造られず、この世界に属さない、さらに大きく、完全な幕屋をとおり、
12 [When a Supreme Priest goes into the inner room in the tent each year, he takes] goats’ blood and calves’ blood [to offer as a sacrifice]. But Christ did not [do that. It was as though] he went into that very holy place only once, taking his own blood with him. By doing that, he eternally redeemed us. (aiōnios g166)
かつ、やぎと子牛との血によらず、ご自身の血によって、一度だけ聖所にはいられ、それによって永遠のあがないを全うされたのである。 (aiōnios g166)
13 The priests sprinkle on people goats’ blood and bulls’ blood and [the water that has been filtered through] the ashes of a [red] heifer that has been [completely burned. By performing that ritual, they can ritually] cleanse the bodies of those who are [ceremonially] unclean. Furthermore, performing those rituals enabled people to have fellowship with God again.
もし、やぎや雄牛の血や雌牛の灰が、汚れた人たちの上にまきかけられて、肉体をきよめ聖別するとすれば、
14 [So, because we know what] Christ [accomplished when] his blood flowed [when he died for us] [PRS, MTY], we will be very certain that we are not guilty [of having] done those things [that those who are spiritually] dead do. [As a result], we can serve God, who is all-powerful. [The priests always offer to God animals] with no defects. Similarly, when Christ offered himself [as a sacrifice] to God, he was sinless [MET]. He did that as a result of [God’s] eternal Spirit [helping him]. (aiōnios g166)
永遠の聖霊によって、ご自身を傷なき者として神にささげられたキリストの血は、なおさら、わたしたちの良心をきよめて死んだわざを取り除き、生ける神に仕える者としないであろうか。 (aiōnios g166)
15 [By] dying [for us], [Christ] ([redeemed/] free from the penalty for their sins) even those who disobeyed the [conditions of] (OR, [during the time of]) the first covenant. So, [because] no [one could be made perfect by obeying the old covenant], now Christ establishes [between God and people] a new covenant. He does that in order that those whom God has chosen may eternally have [the blessings that God] has promised them. (aiōnios g166)
それだから、キリストは新しい契約の仲保者なのである。それは、彼が初めの契約のもとで犯した罪過をあがなうために死なれた結果、召された者たちが、約束された永遠の国を受け継ぐためにほかならない。 (aiōnios g166)
16 A covenant [is like a will. In the case of a will], [in order to put its provisions into effect], someone must prove that the one who made it has died.
いったい、遺言には、遺言者の死の証明が必要である。
17 A will goes into effect [only when the one who makes the will] has died. It is not in effect when the one who made it is still alive.
遺言は死によってのみその効力を生じ、遺言者が生きている間は、効力がない。
18 And so [God] put the first covenant into effect only [LIT] by means of [animals’] blood that was shed [when they were slaughtered].
だから、初めの契約も、血を流すことなしに成立したのではない。
19 After Moses had declared to all the Israelites everything that God commanded in the laws [that God gave him], he took calves’ and goats’ blood [mixed] with water. He [dipped into it] scarlet wool [that he tied around] a sprig of hyssop. Then he sprinkled [with some of the blood] the scroll itself containing God’s laws. Then he sprinkled [more of that blood on all the] people,
すなわち、モーセが、律法に従ってすべての戒めを民全体に宣言したとき、水と赤色の羊毛とヒソプとの外に、子牛とやぎとの血を取って、契約書と民全体とにふりかけ、
20 saying to them, “This is the blood [which brings into effect] the covenant that God commanded that you [obey].”
そして、「これは、神があなたがたに対して立てられた契約の血である」と言った。
21 Likewise, he sprinkled with that blood the tent and every object that they used in performing rituals.
彼はまた、幕屋と儀式用の器具いっさいにも、同様に血をふりかけた。
22 It was by [sprinkling] blood that they [ritually] cleansed almost everything. That was what [was stated in] God’s laws. If blood is not shed [when people offer a sacrifice, God] cannot forgive [the person who is making the sacrifice].
こうして、ほとんどすべての物が、律法に従い、血によってきよめられたのである。血を流すことなしには、罪のゆるしはあり得ない。
23 So, by rituals like that, it was necessary for [the priests] to cleanse the things that symbolized what Christ does [MTY] in heaven. But God has to [consecrate] the [people who will enter] [MTY] heaven [by means of] better sacrifices than those.
このように、天にあるもののひな型は、これらのものできよめられる必要があるが、天にあるものは、これらより更にすぐれたいけにえで、きよめられねばならない。
24 Christ did not enter a sanctuary that humans made. That one only represented the true [sanctuary]. Instead, he entered heaven itself, in order to now be in God’s presence [to plead with] God for us.
ところが、キリストは、ほんとうのものの模型にすぎない、手で造った聖所にはいらないで、上なる天にはいり、今やわたしたちのために神のみまえに出て下さったのである。
25 The [Jewish] Supreme Priest enters the very holy place once every year, taking blood that is not his own, [to offer it as a sacrifice]. But when Christ entered heaven, it was not in order to offer himself repeatedly like that.
大祭司は、年ごとに、自分以外のものの血をたずさえて聖所にはいるが、キリストは、そのように、たびたびご自身をささげられるのではなかった。
26 [If that were so], he would have needed to suffer [and shed his blood] repeatedly since [the time when God] created the world. But instead, in this final age, [Christ] has appeared once in order that by sacrificing himself he could cause [that people] no longer will be [punished for their] sins. (aiōn g165)
もしそうだとすれば、世の初めから、たびたび苦難を受けねばならなかったであろう。しかし事実、ご自身をいけにえとしてささげて罪を取り除くために、世の終りに、一度だけ現れたのである。 (aiōn g165)
27 All people must die once, and after that [God] will judge them [for their sins].
そして、一度だけ死ぬことと、死んだ後さばきを受けることとが、人間に定まっているように、
28 Likewise, when Christ [died], [God] offered him once to be a sacrifice, to punish him instead of the many [people who had] sinned. He will come [to earth] a second time, not [in order to sacrifice himself again for those who] have sinned, but in order to [complete] his saving those who expectantly wait for him.
キリストもまた、多くの人の罪を負うために、一度だけご自身をささげられた後、彼を待ち望んでいる人々に、罪を負うためではなしに二度目に現れて、救を与えられるのである。
