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1 第二項 偽教師に對する事。 民の中には偽預言者すら在りしが、斯の如く汝等の中にも亦偽教師ありて、亡の異端を齎し、己を贖ひ給ひし主を否み、速なる亡を己に招かんとす。
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 而して多くの人は彼等の放蕩に倣ひ、眞理の道は彼等の為に罵らるべし。
And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3 彼等は貪欲なるが故に、空言を以て汝等に就きて利する所あらんとする者にして、其審判は昔よりありて今に歇まず、而して其亡は眠らざるなり。
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; (Tartaroō g5020)
5 又昔の世を赦し給はずして、義の宣教者たるノエの一家八人を守り、敬虔ならざる者の世に洪水を至らしめ給ひ、
And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6 ソドマ、ゴモラの都會を化して灰と成らしめ、不敬虔に生活すべき人々の見せしめとして、之を全滅に處し給ひ、
And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
7 又義人ロトが非道の人々より侮辱と放蕩なる振舞とを以て悩まさるるを救出し給へり。
And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
8 其は此義人彼等の中に住み、彼等が不義の行を見聞きして、日々に其正しき心を痛め居たればなり。
( For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds; )
9 主は敬虔なる者を患難より救ふ事、又審判の日に罰せらるる様不義者を保留する事を知り給ふ。
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
10 況や肉に從ひて穢らはしき情慾の中に歩み、主権を軽んじ、大膽横柄にして光榮あるものを罵るを畏れざる人々をや。
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
11 能力と権威とに於て[彼等に]優れる天使等すら、光榮あるものに對して侮辱の評を加へざるに、
Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
12 彼等は恰も捕へられて屠られん為に生れたる智恵なき獣に齊しくして、己が知らざる事を罵りて不義の報を受け、亡に歸すべし。
But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
13 彼等は實に汚染なり、汚穢なり、一日の愉快を樂とし、肉の歓樂を求め、其會食に於て汝等と共に放蕩を極め、
And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
14 其目は姦通に充ち、罪に飽かず、精神堅固ならざる者を誑し、其心は貪欲に鍛錬して詛の子たり。
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
15 不義の報酬を好みしボゾルの子バラアムの道を辿り、正しき道を離れて迷へり。
Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
16 彼は其罪を咎められて、言はぬ驢馬は人の聲にて語り、以て預言者の愚を戒めたりしが、
But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb donkey speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
17 彼等は水なき井、嵐に吹遣らるる雲にして、之に殘るは闇の暗さなり。
These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. (questioned)
18 蓋傲慢の大言を語りて迷へる者に暫し遠ざかりたる人々を、放蕩を以て肉慾に誘ひ、
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
19 之に約するに自由を以てすれども、自らは腐敗の奴隷たり、其は人物に勝たるれば其奴隷と成ればなり。
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
20 抑彼等は我主にして且救主に在すイエズス、キリストを知り奉りし為に、一旦世間の穢に遠ざかりて後、再び之に負けて纏らるれば、其後の状態は前に優りて惡く成れり。
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
21 蓋義の道を知らざるは、寧之を知りて後、傳へられたる聖誡を遠ざかるよりは彼等に取りて優りし也。
For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
22 眞の諺に、其吐きたるものに還れる犬と云ひ、洗潔められて泥の中に転べる牝豚と云へるは彼等に當れり。
But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
