Romans 9
1 [Now I would like to discuss the fact that most of my fellow Israelites have rejected Christ]. Because of my relationship with Christ, I say completely truthfully [what I will now tell you]. I am not lying [DOU]! My conscience confirms what I [say] because the Holy Spirit [controls it].
わたしはキリストにあって真実を語る。偽りは言わない。わたしの良心も聖霊によって、わたしにこうあかしをしている。
2 [I tell you that] I grieve very greatly and deeply [DOU] [about my fellow Israelites].
すなわち、わたしに大きな悲しみがあり、わたしの心に絶えざる痛みがある。
3 I personally would be willing to let [God] curse me [and, as a result, be separated] from Christ, [if that would] help my fellow Israelites, my natural kinsmen, [to believe in Christ].
実際、わたしの兄弟、肉による同族のためなら、わたしのこの身がのろわれて、キリストから離されてもいとわない。
4 We [Jews] are [Israelites, God’s chosen] descendants of [Jacob]. [God has always considered] us as his children [MET]. It was to our ancestors [that he used to appear] gloriously [while they were in the desert]. It was with them that [God made] covenants [several times]. It was to them [that God] gave the laws [at Sinai Mountain]. They were the ones [to whom God showed how they should] worship him. They were the ones [to whom God] promised many things, [especially that the Messiah would come from their race].
彼らはイスラエル人であって、子たる身分を授けられることも、栄光も、もろもろの契約も、律法を授けられることも、礼拝も、数々の約束も彼らのもの、
5 It was our ancestors, [Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, whom God chose to found our nation]. And, [most importantly], it was from us Israelites that the Messiah received his human nature. [Nevertheless, most of my fellow Israelites have rejected Christ], who is the one who controls all things! He is God, the one who is worthy that we praise him forever! This is true! (OR, Amen!) (aiōn g165)
また父祖たちも彼らのものであり、肉によればキリストもまた彼らから出られたのである。万物の上にいます神は、永遠にほむべきかな、アァメン。 (aiōn g165)
6 [God promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that their descendants would all inherit his blessings]. But [although most of my fellow Israelites have rejected Christ], that does not [prove] that God has failed [to do] the things that he promised, because it is not all who are descended from Jacob and who [call themselves the people of] Israel whom [God considers] to be truly his people.
しかし、神の言が無効になったというわけではない。なぜなら、イスラエルから出た者が全部イスラエルなのではなく、
7 And it is also not all of Abraham’s natural descendants that [God considers] to be his people. Instead, [God considers only some of them to be Abraham’s children]. [This agrees with what God told Abraham]: “It is Isaac, [not any of your(sg) other sons], whom [I] will consider [to be the true father of] your descendants.”
また、アブラハムの子孫だからといって、その全部が子であるのではないからである。かえって「イサクから出る者が、あなたの子孫と呼ばれるであろう」。
8 That means that it is not all the natural-born descendants [of Abraham] whom God [considers as] his children. Instead, it is those who [believed what God] promised whom [he] considers to be his children.
すなわち、肉の子がそのまま神の子なのではなく、むしろ約束の子が子孫として認められるのである。
9 [You know that what God] promised [to Abraham] was this: “About this time [next year] Sarah [your wife] will bear a son [as a result of my enabling] [MTY] [her to do so].” [So Abraham knew that it was not through Ishmael, the son that he already had, that God would fulfill what he had promised him] (OR, [that his true descendants would come]).
約束の言葉はこうである。「来年の今ごろ、わたしはまた来る。そして、サラに男子が与えられるであろう」。
10 And not only then did God show [that he did not determine who would be his true children according to who their ancestors were. He showed it again] when Rebecca conceived [twins] by our ancestor Isaac.
そればかりではなく、ひとりの人、すなわち、わたしたちの父祖イサクによって受胎したリベカの場合も、また同様である。
11 Before [the twins, Jacob and Esau], were born, when neither one had yet done anything good or bad, [God] said to Rebecca [about the twins she was to bear], “The older one shall later serve the younger one, [contrary to normal custom].” [God said this] in order that [we] might [clearly] understand that what he purposed [for people] was according to what he himself determined. That is, people’s [eternal destiny] does not depend on what they do. Instead, their destiny depends on [God], the one who chooses them.
まだ子供らが生れもせず、善も悪もしない先に、神の選びの計画が、
わざによらず、召したかたによって行われるために、「兄は弟に仕えるであろう」と、彼女に仰せられたのである。
13 And [this teaching is] ([supported/shown to be true]) [by] what is written [in the Scriptures] {what [a prophet] recorded} [that God said]: “I favored Jacob, [the younger son]. I did not favor [HYP] Esau, [the older son].”
「わたしはヤコブを愛しエサウを憎んだ」と書いてあるとおりである。
14 [Someone] might say, “(Is God unjust [by choosing the ones he wants to choose?/I think] that God is unjust [by choosing the ones he wants to choose!])” [RHQ] [I would reply], “[He is] certainly not [unjust]!”
では、わたしたちはなんと言おうか。神の側に不正があるのか。断じてそうではない。
15 God told Moses, “I will pity and help anyone whom I choose [DOU]!”
神はモーセに言われた、「わたしは自分のあわれもうとする者をあわれみ、いつくしもうとする者を、いつくしむ」。
16 So [God chooses people], not because they want [God to choose them] or because they try hard [to do things so that he] will [accept them]. Instead he chooses people because he himself has mercy [on undeserving ones].
ゆえに、それは人間の意志や努力によるのではなく、ただ神のあわれみによるのである。
17 [Moses] recorded [PRS] [that God had told] Pharaoh, “This is why I gave you [(sg)] authority [MTY]: It was in order that I might show [by how I oppose] you [how exceedingly] powerful I am, and in order that people everywhere [HYP] would hear about me [MTY].”
聖書はパロにこう言っている、「わたしがあなたを立てたのは、この事のためである。すなわち、あなたによってわたしの力をあらわし、また、わたしの名が全世界に言いひろめられるためである」。
18 So [we conclude that God] kindly helps the ones he wants to act kindly towards. But he makes stubborn the ones [such as Pharaoh] that he wants [to make stubborn].
だから、神はそのあわれもうと思う者をあわれみ、かたくなにしようと思う者を、かたくなになさるのである。
19 [One of] you may [object to this by] saying to me, “[Because God determines ahead of time everything that people do, that also implies that he wants us to do everything that we do]. (No one has resisted what God has willed!/Who has resisted what God has willed?) [RHQ] Therefore, (it would not be right that God would still condemn [a person for having sinned]!/why does God still condemn [a person for having sinned]?) [RHQ]”
そこで、あなたは言うであろう、「なぜ神は、なおも人を責められるのか。だれが、神の意図に逆らい得ようか」。
20 [I would reply that since] you [(sg)] are [just a] human being, (you do not [have any right at all to] criticize God!/[who are you to] say that what God does is wrong?) [RHQ] [As a potter is the one who creates a clay pot, God is the one who created you]. (A clay pot [MET] certainly would not [have a right to criticize] the potter by asking [PRS], “Why did you [(sg)] make me this way?”/Would a clay pot [have a right to criticize] the potter by asking [PRS], “Why did you [(sg)] make me this way?”) [RHQ]
ああ人よ。あなたは、神に言い逆らうとは、いったい、何者なのか。造られたものが造った者に向かって、「なぜ、わたしをこのように造ったのか」と言うことがあろうか。
21 Instead, (the potter certainly has the right to [take] some clay and from one lump [of clay] make one pot that people will honor and [make another] one for ordinary purposes [MET]./does not a potter have the right to [take] some clay and from one lump [of clay] make one pot that people will honor and [make another] pot for ordinary purposes?) [MET, RHQ] [Similarly, God has the right to carry out what he purposes for people].
陶器を造る者は、同じ土くれから、一つを尊い器に、他を卑しい器に造りあげる権能がないのであろうか。
22 Although God desires to show that he is angry [about sin], and [although he desires to] make clear that he can powerfully [punish people who have sinned], he tolerated very patiently the people [MET] who caused him to be angry and who deserved to be destroyed (OR, who were made to be destroyed).
もし、神が怒りをあらわし、かつ、ご自身の力を知らせようと思われつつも、滅びることになっている怒りの器を、大いなる寛容をもって忍ばれたとすれば、
23 [God has been patient] in order that he might make clear how very wonderfully [he acts toward those] [MET] whom he intended to act mercifully towards and whom he prepared ahead of time in order that they might [live] gloriously [in heaven].
かつ、栄光にあずからせるために、あらかじめ用意されたあわれみの器にご自身の栄光の富を知らせようとされたとすれば、どうであろうか。
24 That means us whom he chose—not only [us] Jews but also non-Jews.
神は、このあわれみの器として、またわたしたちをも、ユダヤ人の中からだけではなく、異邦人の中からも召されたのである。
25 [These words that] Hosea wrote [MTY] that [God] said also (show that God has the right/[support God’s right]) [to choose from among both Jews and non-Jews] [MTY]: I will declare that many people who were not my people are now my people. I will declare that many people whom I did not love [HYP] before, I love now.
それは、ホセアの書でも言われているとおりである、「わたしは、わたしの民でない者を、わたしの民と呼び、愛されなかった者を、愛される者と呼ぶであろう。
26 And [another prophet wrote]: What will happen is that in the places where [God] told them before, “You are not my people,” in those same places [people] will declare truthfully that they are children of God, who is completely powerful.
あなたがたはわたしの民ではないと、彼らに言ったその場所で、彼らは生ける神の子らであると、呼ばれるであろう」。
27 Isaiah also exclaimed concerning the Israelites: Even though the Israelites are [so many that no one can count them, like] sand [particles on the beach beside] the ocean, [only] a small part of them will be saved {[God] will save [only] a small part of them},
また、イザヤはイスラエルについて叫んでいる、「たとい、イスラエルの子らの数は、浜の砂のようであっても、救われるのは、残された者だけであろう。
28 because the Lord will punish completely and speedily the [people who live on] this earth, as he said that he would do.
主は、御言をきびしくまたすみやかに、地上になしとげられるであろう」。
29 [Also, we can understand from what the prophet] Isaiah said [that God would not save] anyone if he did not show mercy: If the Lord, who controls everything in heaven, had not mercifully allowed some of our descendants to survive, we would have become like the people of [the cities of] Sodom and Gomorrah, who were [SIM, DOU] completely destroyed.
さらに、イザヤは預言した、「もし、万軍の主がわたしたちに子孫を残されなかったなら、わたしたちはソドムのようになり、ゴモラと同じようになったであろう」。
30 We must conclude this: [RHQ] Although non-Jews did not search out [a way by which] God would erase the record of their sins, they actually found that way because they trusted [in what Christ did for them].
では、わたしたちはなんと言おうか。義を追い求めなかった異邦人は、義、すなわち、信仰による義を得た。
31 But although [the people of] Israel sought a basis [by which God would] erase the record of their sins, they did not succeed in [fulfilling the true purpose of the] laws [that God gave to Moses].
しかし、義の律法を追い求めていたイスラエルは、その律法に達しなかった。
32 The reason [RHQ] [that they did not succeed] is that they did not trust that [God would provide a way to save them]. Instead, they were trying to do certain things [in order that God would accept them. Because they did not expect the Messiah to die, the Israelites] felt disgusted about [Jesus’ death, which is like] the stone [MET] on which people stumble.
なぜであるか。信仰によらないで、行いによって得られるかのように、追い求めたからである。彼らは、つまずきの石につまずいたのである。
33 This is what [a prophet] predicted when he wrote these words that [God said about the Messiah]: Listen! I am placing in Israel [MTY] [one who is like] a stone [MET] on which people will stumble. What he does will offend people [DOU]. Nevertheless, those who believe in him will not be disappointed.
「見よ、わたしはシオンに、つまずきの石、さまたげの岩を置く。それにより頼む者は、失望に終ることがない」と書いてあるとおりである。
