コリント人への手紙第二 11
1 第二項 パウロ己を僞教師に比較す 冀はくは汝等我が愚なる所を聊容赦せん事を、又我をも容赦せよ。
I could wish that you would tolerate a little folly in me! But indeed you do tolerate me.
2 其は我神の如き妬を以て汝等の為に奮發し、汝等を一人の夫に於る潔白なる少女としてキリストに婚約したればなり。
I am jealous over you with the jealousy of God. For I betrothed you to one husband, that I might present you to the Christ a pure bride.
3 然れど我が恐るる所は、蛇の狡猾によりてエワの惑はされし如く、汝等の心損はれてキリストに對する質朴を失はん事是なり。
Yet I fear that it may turn out that, just as the Serpent by his craftiness deceived Eve, so your minds may have lost the loyalty and purity due from you to the Christ.
4 蓋人來りて、我等の宣べざりし他のキリストを宣べ、又は汝等曾て蒙らざりし他の霊、若くは曾て承容れざりし他の福音を受けんか、汝等能く之を容れん。
For, if some new-comer is proclaiming a Jesus other than him whom we proclaimed, or if you are receiving a Spirit different from the Spirit which you received, or a Good News different from that which you welcomed, then you are marvellously tolerant!
5 然れど我は何事に於ても彼大使徒等に劣らずと思ふ、
I do not regard myself as in any way inferior to the most eminent Apostles!
6 蓋談話には拙けれども學識は然らず、然れど萬事に於て汝等には顕然たり。
Though I am no trained orator, yet I am not without knowledge; indeed we made this perfectly clear to you in every way.
7 或は我、汝等を高めん為に自ら謙りて、報酬なくして神の福音を宣べたるが犯罪なりや、
Perhaps you say that I did wrong in humbling myself that you might be exalted — I mean because I told you God’s Good News without payment.
8 我他の教會を剥取りて給金を受け、以て汝等の為に務め、
I robbed other churches by taking pay from them, so that I might serve you!
9 又汝等の中に在りて乏しかりしも誰をも煩はさず、マケドニアより來りし兄弟等は我が足らざるを補へり、斯の如く自ら注意して、萬事に於て汝等を煩はさじとしたるが、以後も亦注意せんとす。
And, when I was with you in need, I did not become a burden to any of you; for our Brothers, on coming from Macedonia, supplied my needs. I kept myself, and will keep myself from being an expense to you in any way.
10 我に在るキリストの眞理によりて誓ふ、此名誉はアカヤ地方に於て我に就きて毀はれざるべし、
As surely as I know anything of the Truth of Christ, this boast, as far as I am concerned, shall not be stopped in any part of Greece.
11 是何故ぞ、我が汝等を愛せざる故なるか、神は知り給へり。
Why? Because I do not love you? God knows that I do!
12 我が行ふ所は我尚之を行はんとす、是機會を求むる人々の機會を断ち、彼等をして自ら誇る所に就きて我等と同じからしめん為なり。
What I am doing now I shall continue to do, that I may cut away the ground from under those who are wishing for some ground for attacking me, so that as regards the thing of which they boast they may appear in their true characters, just as we do.
13 蓋斯る人々は僞使徒にして狡猾なる勞働者、身をキリストの使徒に装へる者なり。
Men of this stamp are false apostles, treacherous workers, disguising themselves as Apostles of Christ!
14 是は珍しき事に非ず、サタンすら自ら光の使に己を装ふ者なれば、
And no wonder; for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of Light.
15 其役者が亦義の役者の如く装ふは大事に非ず、彼等の終は其業に適ふべし。
It is not surprising, therefore, if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of Righteousness. But their end will be in accordance with their actions.
16 我再び言はん、我も少しく誇るべければ、誰も我を愚なりとする事勿れ、然らずば愚として我を承容れよ。
I say again — Let no one think me a fool! Yet, if you do, at least welcome me as you would a fool, that I, too may indulge in a little boasting.
17 此名誉の點に就きて我が語る所は、主に從ひて語るに非ず、愚なる者の如くにして語るなり。
When I speak thus, I am not speaking as the Master would, but as a fool might, in boasting so confidently.
18 多くの人は肉身上に誇る故に、我も亦誇らん。
As so many are boasting of earthly things, I, too, will boast.
19 蓋汝等は自ら智者なれば、喜びて愚者を忍ぶなり。
For all your cleverness, you tolerate fools willingly enough!
20 即ち人ありて汝等を奴隷とするも、喰盡すも、掠むるも、驕るも、汝等の面を打つも、汝等は之を忍ぶ。
You tolerate a man even when he enslaves you, when he plunders you, when he gets you into his power, when he puts on airs of superiority, when he strikes you in the face!
21 耻しながら我は言ふ、我等は此點に就きて弱き者の如くなりき。愚にも言はん、人の敢て憶せざる所は我もあえて憶せず。
I admit, to my shame, that we have been weak. But whatever the subject on which others are not afraid to boast — though it is foolish to say so — I am not afraid either!
22 彼等ヘブレオ人なるか、我も亦然り、彼等イスラエル人なるか、我も亦然り、彼等アブラハムの裔なるか、我も亦然り、
Are they Hebrews? So am I! Are they Israelites? So am I! Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I!
23 彼等キリストの役者なるか、我狂へるが如くに云はん、我は尚然り。我働は尚夥しく、監獄に入りし事は尚多く、傷けられし事は無量にして、死に遇へる事は屡なりき。
Are they ‘Servants of Christ’? Though it is madness to talk like this, I am more so than they! I have had more of toil, more of imprisonment! I have been flogged times without number. I have been often at death’s door.
24 ユデア人より四十に一足らず打擲せられし事五度、
Five times I received at the hands of the Jews forty lashes, all but one.
25 笞刑を受けし事三度、石を擲たれし事一度、破船に遇ひし事三度にして、一晝夜の間海中に在りき。
Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. I have spent a whole day and night in the deep.
26 數次旅行して、河の難、盗賊の難、邦人よりの難、異邦人よりの難、都會に於る難、僻地に於る難、海上の難、僞兄弟よりの難に遇ひ、
My journeys have been many. I have been through dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my own people, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in towns, dangers in the country, dangers on the sea, dangers among false Brothers.
27 勞働し且悩み、數次夜眠らず、飢渇き、断食する事度々にして凍え且裸なりき。
I have been through toil and hardship. I have passed many a sleepless night; I have endured hunger and thirst; I have often been without food; I have known cold and nakedness.
28 是等外部の事の外、亦日々差迫れる諸教會の憂あり、
And, not to speak of other things, there is my daily burden of anxiety about all the Churches.
29 弱れる者あるに我も弱らざらんや、躓く者あるに我も心燬けざらんや。
Who is weak without my being weak? Who is led astray without my burning with indignation?
30 誇るべくんば我が弱點に就きて誇らん、
If I must boast, I will boast of things which show my weakness!
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus — he who is for ever blessed — knows that I am speaking the truth. (aiōn g165)
32 ダマスコに於てアレタ王の下なる州長、我を捕へんとてダマスコ人の都會を守りしかば、
When I was in Damascus, the Governor under King Aretas had the gates of that city guarded, so as to arrest me,
33 我は籠を以て窓より石垣傳ひに釣下され、然て其手を脱れたりき。
but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and so escaped his hands.
