Hebrews 6
1 Therefore, let us leave behind the elementary teaching about the Christ and press on to perfection, not always laying over again a foundation of repentance for a lifeless formality, of faith in God —
この故に我らはキリストの教の初歩に止ることなく、再び死にたる行爲の悔改と神に對する信仰との基、
2 teaching concerning baptisms and the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead and a final judgment. (aiōnios g166)
また各樣のバプテスマと按手と、死人の復活と永遠の審判との教の基を置かずして完全に進むべし。 (aiōnios g166)
3 Yes and, with God’s help, we will.
神もし許し給はば、我ら之をなさん。
4 For if those who were once for all brought into the Light, and learned to appreciate the gift from Heaven, and came to share in the Holy Spirit,
一たび照されて天よりの賜物を味ひ、聖 靈に與る者となり、
5 and learned to appreciate the beauty of the Divine Message, and the new powers of the Coming Age — (aiōn g165)
神の善き言と來世の能力とを味ひて後、 (aiōn g165)
6 if those, I say, fell away, it would be impossible to bring them again to repentance; they would be crucifying the Son of God over again for themselves, and exposing him to open contempt.
墮落する者は更にまた自ら神の子を十字架に釘けて肆し者とする故に、再びこれを悔改に立返らすること能はざるなり。
7 Ground that drinks in the showers that from time to time fall upon it, and produces vegetation useful to those for whom it is tilled, receives a blessing from God;
それ地しばしば其の上に降る雨を吸ひ入れて耕す者の益となるべき作物を生ぜば、神より祝福を受く。
8 but, if it ‘bears thorns and thistles,’ it is regarded as worthless, it is in danger of being ‘cursed,’ and its end will be the fire.
されど茨と薊とを生ぜば、棄てられ、かつ詛に近く、その果ては焚かるるなり。
9 But about you, dear friends, even though we speak in this way, we are confident of better things — of things that point to your Salvation.
愛する者よ、われら斯くは語れど、汝らには更に善きこと、即ち救にかかはる事あるを深く信ず。
10 For God is not unjust; he will not forget the work that you did, and the love that you showed for his Name, in sending help to your fellow Christians — as you are still doing.
神は不義に在さねば、汝らの勤勞と、前に聖徒につかへ、今もなほ之に事へて御名のために顯したる愛とを忘れ給ふことなし。
11 But our great desire is that every one of you should be equally earnest to attain to a full conviction that our hope will be fulfilled, and that you should keep that hope to the end.
我らは汝 等がおのおの終まで前と同じ勵をあらはして全き望を保ち、
12 Then you will not show yourselves slow to learn, but you will copy those who, through faith and patience, are now entering upon the enjoyment of God’s promises.
怠ることなく、信仰と耐忍とをもて約束を嗣ぐ人々に效はんことを求む。
13 When God gave his promise to Abraham, since there was no one greater by whom he could swear, he swore by himself.
それ神はアブラハムに約し給ふとき、指して誓ふべき己より大なる者なき故に、己を指して誓ひて言ひ給へり、
14 His words were — ‘I will assuredly bless thee and increase thy numbers.’
『われ必ず、なんぢを惠み惠まん、なんぢを殖し殖さん』と、
15 And so, after patiently waiting, Abraham obtained the fulfilment of God’s promise.
斯くの如くアブラハムは耐へ忍びて約束のものを得たり。
16 Men, of course, swear by what is greater than themselves, and with them an oath is accepted as putting a matter beyond all dispute.
おほよそ人は己より大なる者を指して誓ふ、その誓はすべての爭論を罷むる保證たり。
17 And therefore God, in his desire to show, with unmistakable plainness, to those who were to enter on the enjoyment of what he had promised, the unchangeableness of his purpose, bound himself with an oath.
この故に神は約束を嗣ぐ者に御旨の變らぬことを充分に示さんと欲して誓を加へ給へり。
18 For he intended us to find great encouragement in these two unchangeable things, which make it impossible for God to prove false — we, I mean, who fled for safety where we might lay hold on the hope set before us.
これ神の謊ること能はぬ二つの變らぬものによりて、己の前に置かれたる希望を捉へんとて遁れたる我らに強き奨勵を與へん爲なり。
19 This hope is a very anchor for our souls, secure and strong, and it ‘reaches into the Sanctuary that lies behind the Curtain,’
この希望は我らの靈魂の錨のごとく安全にして動かず、かつ幔の内に入る。
