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1 イエズス、キリストの使徒たるペトロ、ポント、ガラチア、カパドシア[小]アジア及びビチニアに離散して寄留せる人々、
PETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the sojourners, dispersed through Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
2 父にて在す神の預知に從ひて、[聖]霊によりて聖とせられ、且服從し、イエズス、キリストの御血を沃がれん為に選まれたる人々に[書簡を贈る]。願はくは恩寵と平安と汝等に加はらん事を。
elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by sanctification of the Spirit, that they might be brought to the obedience, and sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ: grace unto you and peace be multiplied.
3 第一項 信徒の賜はりし恵を神に感謝す。 第一編 キリスト信徒の特典及び其要する聖徳。 祝すべき哉我主イエズス、キリストの父にて在す神、蓋其大いなる憫に從ひて、イエズスの死者の中よりの復活を以て、我等を新に生れしめて、活ける希望を懐かしめ、
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto an animating hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4 天に於て汝等に備はりたる、屈せず穢れざる而も萎まざる世嗣を得させんとし給ふ。
for an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,
5 汝等は神の能力により、終の日に顕るべく備はりたる救霊を得ん為に、信仰を以て守らるるものなり。
who are guarded by the omnipotence of God, through faith to obtain the salvation which is ready to appear at the last time.
6 是によりて、假令暫くは種々の試に悩まさるべきも、汝等は喜に勝へざるべし。
Wherein ye exult, though yet for a little space, (if it must be so, ) ye are in sorrow through various trials:
7 蓋汝等が信仰の試みらるるは、金が火を以て試るるよりも遥に尊き事にして、イエズス、キリストの公現の時、誉と榮と尊とを得べき者として認められん為なり。
that the test of your faith (much more precious than that of gold, which is of a perishing nature, though proved by fire) may be found unto praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
8 汝等はイエズス、キリストを見ざりしも、之を愛し奉り、今も尚見ずして之を信じ奉り、信じ奉りて而も光榮を帯びたる言ひ難き喜に勝へざるならん。
whom though ye have not seen, ye love; on whom, though ye have not as yet gazed, yet believing, ye exult with joy unutterable and glorious:
9 其は汝等の信仰の目的たる魂の救を得べければなり。
receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
10 此救霊に就きては、汝等に於る将來の恩寵の事を預言せし預言者等、穿鑿して之を探求せり。
Concerning which salvation the prophets eagerly sought and diligently inquired, who prophesied of the grace which is come to you:
11 即ちキリストの霊は彼等に在して、キリストに於る苦難と其後の光榮とを豫告げ給ひしかば、何時の頃如何なる時を示し給へるぞと探求したりしに、
investigating to what time and to what conjuncture the Spirit of Christ in them pointed, when predicting the sufferings coming upon Christ, and the glories subsequent thereto.
12 其傳ふる所は、彼等自らの為に非ずして汝等の為なりとの黙示を得たり。其傳ふる所とは、天より遣はされ給ひし聖霊によりて汝等に福音を宣べし人々より、汝等が今既に告げられたる所にして、天使等も亦之を鑑みる事を欲せるなり。
To whom it was revealed, that not for themselves, but for us were their ministrations employed in the things which are now declared unto you by those who have preached the gospel unto you by the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; on which things the angels bending forwards eagerly desire to gaze.
13 第二項 神の御恵に應じて生活すべし。 是故に汝等心に帯して節制し、イエズス、キリストの公現の時汝等に賜はる恩寵を缺くる所なく希望し、
Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, vigilant, wait with assured hope for the grace, which shall be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
14 從順なる子兒の如く、最初の不知の望に從ふ事なく、
as obedient children, not conformed to the former passions of the days of your ignorance:
15 汝等を召し給ひし聖なるものに象りて、凡ての行状に於て汝等も亦聖と成れ。
but as he who hath called you is holy, be ye holy also in all your conduct:
16 其は録して、「我は聖なるにより汝等も聖と成るべし」とあればなり。
because it is written, “Be ye holy; for I am holy.”
17 人に依怙ある事なく、各の業によりて審判し給ふ者を父と呼び奉るならば、畏を以て汝等が世に住める時を過せ。
And if ye invoke him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, conduct yourselves during the time of your sojourning with jealous fear:
18 是汝等が先祖傳來の空しき行状より贖はれしは、金銀の如き壊るべきものによらずして、
knowing that ye have not been redeemed out of your vain manner of life, derived traditionally from your fathers, by the corruptible things, silver and gold,
19 無缺無垢の羔の如きキリストの尊き御血によれる事を知ればなり。
but by the precious blood of Christ, as the unblemished and spotless lamb:
20 彼は世界開闢以前より豫知せられ給ひたりしかど、彼によりて神を信仰せる汝等の為に、世の末に顕れ給ひたるものにして、
who was indeed predestined before the foundation of the world, but manifested in these last times for us,
21 神が之を死者の中より復活せしめ之に光榮を賜ひしは、汝等の信仰と希望とを神によらしめ給はんとてなり。
who by him believe in God, that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
22 汝等偽なき兄弟的相愛を生ぜしめんが為に、眞理に服從する事によりて魂を潔め、一層深く心より相愛せよ。
Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth through the Spirit unto fraternal affection undissembled, love each other intensely out of a pure heart:
born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the quickening word of God, and which abideth for ever. (aiōn g165)
24 蓋一切の肉身は草の如く、其榮は草の花の如し、草は枯れ其花は落つれども、
“For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man, as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower of it falleth off:”
