コリント人への手紙第二 1
1 神の思召によりてイエズス、キリストの使徒たるパウロ、及び兄弟チモテオ、コリントに在る神の教會並にアカヤ全地方の聖徒一同に[書簡を贈る]。
To the Church of God in Corinth, and to all Christ’s People throughout Greece, from Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God, and from Timothy, a Brother.
2 願はくは我父にて在す神及び主イエズス、キリストより、恩寵と平安とを汝等に賜はらん事を。
May God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.
3 祝すべき哉我主キリスト、イエズスの神及び父、慈悲の父、諸の慰の神。即ち
Blessed is the God and Father of Jesus Christ our Lord, the all-merciful Father, the God ever ready to console,
4 我一切の患難に於て我等を慰め給へるは、我等をして、己が神より慰めらるる慰を以て、亦自ら一切の難に迫れる人々を慰むる事を得しめ給はんとなり。
who consoles us in all our troubles, so that we may be able to console those who are in any trouble with the consolation that we ourselves receive from him.
5 蓋キリストの為の苦我等に溢るるが如く、我等の慰も亦キリストを以て溢るるなり。
It is true that we have our full share of the sufferings of the Christ, but through the Christ we have also our full share of consolation.
6 抑我等が苦難に遇へるも汝等の慰安と救霊との為、慰めらるるも汝等の慰の為にして、汝等にも我等が忍べる如き苦を忍ぶ事を得しむるなり。
If we meet with trouble, it is for the sake of your consolation and salvation; and, if we find consolation, it is for the sake of the consolation that you will experience when you are called to endure the very sufferings that we ourselves are enduring;
7 斯て汝等が苦を共にするが如く、又慰をも共にせん事を知れば、我等が汝等に對する希望は堅し。
and our hope for you remains unshaken. We know that, as you are sharing our sufferings, you will also share our consolation.
8 蓋兄弟等よ、我等が[小]アジアに於て遇ひし困難に就きて、汝等の知らざるを好まず、即ち責めらるる事過度にして、力及ばず、活くる望をすら失ふに至りしかば、
We want you, Brothers, to know that, in the troubles which befell us in Roman Asia, we were burdened altogether beyond our strength, so much so that we even despaired of life.
9 心の中には死すとの返答を持ちたりき。是己を頼まずして、死者を復活せしめ給神を頼奉らん為なり。
Indeed, we had the presentiment that we must die, so that we might rely, not on ourselves, but on God who raises the dead.
10 即ち曩に斯る死より我等を救ひ給ひて今も救ひ給へば、尚救ひ給ふべき事を信頼するなり。
And from so imminent a death God delivered us, and will deliver us again; for in him we have placed our hopes of future deliverance, while you, also, help us by your prayers.
11 是亦汝等が我等の為に祈りて援くるに由る、蓋多くの人の願によりて我等に賜はる恵を、多くの人を以て我等の為に感謝せられんとてなり。
And then many lips will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us in answer to many prayers.
12 第一項 パウロの眞實を咎め得る者はあらじ 第一編 パウロ使徒としての動作及び氣質を弁護す 我等が誇とする所は、即ち世中、殊に汝等に對して處するに質直なる心と神の賜へる眞實とを以てし、又肉的智恵に由らず神の恩寵に由りてせるを、我良心の證する事是なり。
Indeed, our main ground for satisfaction is this — Our conscience tells us that our conduct in the world, and still more in our relations with you, was marked by a purity of motive and a sincerity that were inspired by God, and was based, not on worldly policy, but on the help of God.
13 蓋我等の書遣るは汝等が読む所知る所に外ならず、
We never write anything to you other than what you will acknowledge to the very end —
14 汝等既に粗我等を知りたれば、亦主イエズス、キリストの日に於て我等が汝等の名誉なるが如く、汝等も我等の名誉なる事を、終まで知らん事を希望す。
And, indeed, you have already partly acknowledged it about us — that you have a right to be proud of us, as we shall be proud of you, on the Day of our Lord Jesus.
15 斯る希望の下に再び恩寵を得させんとて、我曩に汝等に至り、
With this conviction in my mind, I planned to come to see you first, so that your pleasure might be doubled —
16 汝等を経てマケドニアに往き、マケドニアより更に復汝等に至り、汝等よりユデアへ送られんと志ししが、
To visit you both on my way to Macedonia, and to come to you again on my return from Macedonia, and then to get you to send me on my way into Judea.
17 斯く志したればとて、我豈軽々しくせしものならんや、又我が定むる事をば肉に由りて定め、我に於て然りと云ひ、又然らずと云ふが如き事あらんや。
As this was my plan, where, pray, did I show any fickleness of purpose? Or do you think that my plans are formed on mere impulse, so that in the same breath I say ‘Yes’ and ‘No’?
18 神は眞實に在して、我が汝等の中に語りし所には、然り然らずと云ふ事なきを證し給ふ。
As God is true, the Message that we brought you does not waver between ‘Yes’ and ‘No’!
19 蓋我等を以て、即ち我とシルヴァノとチモテオとを以て、汝等の中に宣べられ給ひし神の御子イエズス、キリストに於ては、然り然らずと云ふ事なく、唯然りと云ふ事あるのみ。
The Son of God, Christ Jesus, whom we — Silas, Timothy, and I — proclaimed among you, never wavered between ‘Yes’ and ‘No.’ With him it has always been ‘Yes.’
20 即神の御約束は彼に於て悉く然りとなりたれば、我等は彼を以て神に向ひて其光榮の為にアメンと誦ふるなり。
For, many as were the promises of God, in Christ is the ‘Yes’ that fulfils them. Therefore, through Christ again, let the ‘Amen’ rise, through us, to the glory of God.
21 汝等と共に我等をキリストに於て堅固ならしめ、且我等に注油し給ひしものは神にて在す。
God who brings us, with you, into close union with Christ, and who consecrated us,
22 而て尚我等を證印し給ひ、保證として霊を我等の心に賜ひしなり。
also set his seal upon us, and gave us his Spirit in our hearts as a pledge of future blessings.
23 我魂を賭けて、神を呼びて證者とし奉る、即ち我が更に汝等に至らざりしは、汝等を宥恕する故なり。
But, as my life shall answer for it, I call God to witness that it was to spare you that I deferred my visit to Corinth.
24 我等は汝等の信仰を壓せんとする者に非ずして、汝等の喜の協力者なり、其は汝等信仰に據りて立てばなり。
I do not mean that we are to dictate to you with regard to your faith; on the contrary, we work with you for your true happiness; indeed, it is through your faith that you are standing firm.
