コリント人への手紙第二 12
1 誇るべくんば、無益の事ながら、我は主の賜ひし幻影と黙示とに及ばん。
It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2 我はキリストに在る一人の人を知れり、彼は十四年前、――肉體に在りてか肉體の外に在りてか、其は我が知る所に非ず、神ぞ知しめす、――第三天まで上げられしなり。
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, ( whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth; ) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
3 我は又知れり。この人は ――肉體に在りてか肉體の外に在りてか其は我が知る所に非ず、神ぞ知しめす、
And I knew such a man, ( whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth; )
4 ――樂土に取挙げられて、得も言はず人の語るべからざる言を聞きしなり。
How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
5 我は斯る人の為に誇らんとすれども、我為には我弱點の外誇る事を為じ。
Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.
6 蓋誇らんとすとも愚なるべきには非ず、眞を語らんとすればなり。然れど人の我に見る所、或は我より聞く所に過ぎて我を重んずる事なからん為に我は罷めん。
For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
7 然て我が蒙りたる黙示の偉大なるにより、我をして驕らざらしめん為に、肉身に一の刺、即ち我を打つべきサタンの使を與へられたり。
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
8 是に於て其の我身より去らん事を三度まで主に求め奉りしに、
For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
9 曰へらく、汝には我恩寵にて足れり、其は力は弱き中に於て全うせらるればなり、と。然ればキリストの能力の我に宿らん為に、寧喜びて我弱點によりて誇らん。
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
10 故に我はキリストの為、我弱點に、耻辱に、缺乏に、迫害に、患難に安んず、弱き時に於てこそ強ければなり。
Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
11 我は愚になれり、汝等に強ひられてなり。蓋汝等より引立てらるる筈なりき、其は我取るに足らざる者なりと雖も、何事も彼無上の大使徒に劣らざればなり。
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
12 我が使徒たるの證據は、凡ての忍耐と徴と奇蹟と不思議とによりて、汝等の上に成立てり。
Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.
13 抑汝等が他の諸教會より少く得たりしは何ぞ、或は我が汝等を煩はさざりし事なるか、請ふ此不義を我に許せ。
For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other Assemblies, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
14 今や三度目に汝等に至として支度せしが、尚汝等を煩はさじ、是我が求むる所は汝等にして、汝等の所有物に非ざればなり。即ち子等は親の為に貯蓄すべきに非ず、親こそ子等の為に之を行ふべきなれば、假令汝等多く愛して、少く愛せらるる事ありとも、
Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
15 我は最も喜びて汝等の魂の為に盡し、又己をも盡さん。
And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
16 縦我汝等を煩はさざりしも、狡猾にして汝等を籠絡せりとせんか、
But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
17 然れど我が汝等に遣はしし人々の中、誰を以て汝等を籠絡せしぞ。
Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
18 チトに頼み、彼と共に又一人の兄弟を遣はししが、チトは汝等を籠絡せしか、我等は同一の精神を以て同一の足跡を歩みしに非ずや。
I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?
19 結末 汝等は豫て、我等汝等に對して弁解すと思へり、我等は神の御前にキリストに在りて語るなり。我至愛なる者よ、萬事は汝等の徳を立てんが為なるぞ。
Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
20 然れど我恐くは、或は至りて汝等を見んに、我が思へる如くならず、又汝等が我を見んにも、思へるが如くならざらんか、或は汝等の間に闘争、嫉妬、怨恨、争論、誹謗、呟言、驕慢、擾亂あらんか、
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
21 又或は我が至らん時、我神我を耻しめ給ひて、多くの人曾て罪を犯したるに、其の行ひし不潔と私通と甚しき罪とを悔改めざるを我が歎く事あらんか。
And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
