ヨハネの手紙第一 2
1 我小子よ、是等の事を汝等に書贈るは、汝等が罪を犯さざらん為なり。然れど若罪を犯したる者あらば、我等は父の御前に辯護者を有せり。是即ち義者イエズス、キリストにして、
My children, I am writing to you to keep you from sinning; but if any one should sin, we have one who can plead for us with the Father — Jesus Christ, the Righteous —
2 彼は我等が罪の贖にて在す、啻に我等の罪のみならず、全世界の罪に對しても亦然るなり。
and he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but for those of the whole world besides.
3 我等御掟を守る時に、是によりて彼を識り奉れる事を覚る。
And by this we know that we have learned to know him — by our laying his commands to heart.
4 自ら彼を識り奉れりと言ひて御掟を守らざる人は、虚言者にして眞理其衷に在らず。
The man who says ‘I know Jesus,’ but does not lay his commands to heart, is a liar, and the Truth has no place in him;
5 其御言を守る人には、神に對するの愛ありて完全なり。我等は是によりて、己の彼に在る事を覚る。
but, whenever a man lays his Message to heart, in that man the love of God has indeed reached its perfection. By this we know that we are in union with God —
6 彼に止り奉ると言ふ人は、己も亦彼が歩み給ひし如くに歩まざるべからず。
He who professes to maintain union with God is himself bound to live as Christ lived.
7 至愛なる者よ、我が汝等に書贈るは新しき掟に非ず、汝等が初より受けたる古き掟にして、古き掟とは汝等の聞きし御言なり。
Dear friends, it is no new command that I am writing to you, but an old command, which you have had from the first. That old command is the Message to which you listened.
8 又新しき掟を汝等に書贈る。是は彼に於ても汝等に於ても等しく眞なり、其は暗黒過去りて眞の光既に照ればなり。
Yet, again, it is a new Command that I am writing to you — manifest in Christ’s life and in your own — for the Darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shining.
9 自ら光に在りと言ひて己が兄弟を憎む人は、今に至るまで暗黒の衷に居るなり。
He who says that he is in the Light, and yet hates his Brother, is in the Darkness even now.
10 己が兄弟を愛する人は、光に止まりて、彼には躓く所なし。
He who loves his Brother is always in the Light, and there is nothing within him to cause him to stumble;
11 然れど己が兄弟を憎む人は、暗黒に在りて暗黒に歩み、暗黒の為に目を眩されたるが故に、往くべき所を知らざるなり。
while he who hates his Brother is in the Darkness, and is living in the Darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the Darkness prevents his seeing.
12 小子よ、我が汝等に書贈るは、汝等の罪キリストの御名によりて赦されたるが故なり。
I am writing, Children, to you, because your sins have been forgiven you for Christ’s sake.
13 父等よ、我が汝等に書贈るは汝等が初より存し給へるものを識りたるが故なり。青年等よ、我が汝等に書贈るは、汝等が惡魔に勝ちたる故なり。
I am writing, Fathers, to you, because you have learned to know him who has been from the Beginning. I am writing, Young Men, to you, because you have conquered the Evil One. I write, Children, to you, because you have learned to know the Father.
14 子兒等よ、我が汝等に書贈りしは、汝等が父を識り奉れる故なり。父等よ、我が汝等に書贈りしは、汝等が父を識り奉りたりし故なり。若き者よ、我が汝等に書贈りしは、汝等が強くして神の御言汝等の衷に止り、汝等惡魔に勝ちたる故なり。
I write, Fathers, to you, because you have learned to know him who has been from the Beginning. I write, Young Men, to you, because you are strong, and God’s Message is always in your hearts, and you have conquered the Evil One.
15 世及び世に在る事を愛する勿れ、人若世を愛せば父に對する愛之に存する事なし、
Do not love the world or what the world can offer. When any one loves the world, there is no love for the Father in him;
16 其は総て世に在る事、肉の慾、目の慾、生活の誇は父より出でずして世より出づればなり。
for all that the world can offer — the gratification of the earthly nature, the gratification of the eye, the pretentious life — belongs, not to the Father, but to the world.
And the world, and all that it gratifies, is passing away, but he who does God’s will remains for ever. (aiōn g165)
18 小子よ、末の時なり、曾て非キリスト來ると汝等の聞きし如く、今既に非キリストと成れるもの多し。我等は之によりて末の時なるを知る。
My Children, these are the last days. You were told that an Anti-Christ was coming; and many Anti-Christs have already arisen. By that we know that these are the last days.
19 彼等は我等の中より出でたれど、素より我等のものたらざりき。若我等のものたりしならば、我等と共に止りしならん、然るに[斯の如くなるは]彼等が皆我等のものたらざる事の明に成らん為なり。
From us, it is true, they went out, but they had never belonged to us; for, if they had belonged to us, they would have remained among us. They left us that it might be made clear that they do not, any of them, belong to us.
20 汝等は聖なるものより注油せられて、一切の事を識れり。
You, however, have received consecration from the Holy One.
21 我が汝等に書贈りしは、眞理を知らざる者としてに非ず、之を知り、又偽は総て眞理より出でざる事を知れる人として書贈れるなり。
You all know — But I am not writing to you because you do not know the Truth, but because you do know it, and because nothing false can come from the Truth.
22 僞る者は誰ぞ、イエズスのキリストにて在す事を否める人に非ずや。御父及び御子を否める人、是こそは非キリストなれ。
Who is a liar, if not the man who rejects the truth that Jesus is the Christ? He is the Anti-Christ — The man who rejects the Father and the Son.
23 総て御子を否める人は御父をも有し奉らず、御子を宣言する人は御父をも有し奉るなり。
No one who rejects the Son has found the Father; he who acknowledges the Son has found the Father also.
24 願はくは汝等が初より聞きし所汝等の衷に止らん事を。若初より聞きし所汝等の衷に止らば、汝等も亦御子及び御父の衷に止り奉らん。
As for you, let what you were told at the first be always in your thoughts. If, then, what you were told at the first is always in your thoughts, you yourselves will maintain your union both with the Son and with the Father.
And this is what he himself promised us — The Immortal Life! (aiōnios g166)
26 我汝等を惑はす人々に就きて是等の事を書贈りたれども、
In writing thus to you, I have in mind those who are trying to mislead you.
27 汝等は彼より賜はりし注油其身に止りて、人に教へらるるを要せず、其注油は萬事に就きて汝等を教へ、而も眞にして偽に非ず、汝等其教へたる儘に之に止れ。
But you — you still retain in your hearts that consecration which you received from the Christ, and are not in need of any one to teach you; but, since his consecration of you teaches you about everything, and since it is a real consecration, and no lie, then, as it has taught you, maintain your union with him.
28 小子よ、卒主の衷に止り奉れ、然らば其顕れ給はん時、我等は憚る所なく、其降臨に於て彼より辱められじ。
Yes, my Children, maintain your union with Christ, so that, whenever he appears, our confidence may not fail us, and we may not be ashamed to meet him at his coming.
29 第二項 神は義にて在せば我等は義に據るべし。 汝等神が義にて在すことを識らば、又義を為す人の彼より生れ奉りしを辨へよ。
Knowing him to be righteous, you realise that every one who lives righteously has received the new Life from him.
