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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 arose false-prophets also among the people, as, among you also, there shall be, false-teachers, —men who will stealthily bring in destructive parties, even the Master that bought them, denying, bringing upon themselves speedy 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, will follow out their wanton ways, —by reason of whom, the way of truth, will be defamed,
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, in greed, with forged words, will they, of you, make merchandise: for whom, the sentence from of old, is not idle, and, their destruction, doth not slumber.
For—if, God, spared not, messengers, when they sinned, but, to pits of gloom, consigning them, in the lowest hades, delivered them up to be kept, 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, an ancient world, spared not, but, with seven others, preserved, Noah, a proclaimer, of righteousness, a flood, upon a world of ungodly persons, letting loose, —
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, the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, reducing to ashes, he condemned, an example of such as should be ungodly, having set forth, —
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, righteous Lot, when getting worn out by the behaviour of them who were impious in wantonness, he rescued—
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, in seeing and hearing, since he dwelt right among them, as a righteous man, he used to torment his soul, day by day, with their lawless 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。
[Then] the Lord knoweth how to rescue, the godly out of trial; but to keep, the unrighteous unto a 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。
Most of all, however, them who go their way, after the flesh, with a coveting of defilement, and who despise, lordship, —daring! willful! before dignitaries, they tremble not, defaming,
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、
where, messengers, though, greater in might and power, are not bringing against them [before the Lord] a defamatory accusation, —
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。
These, however, as unreasoning creatures that have been bred as being, by nature, for capture and destruction, in the things they are ignorant of, uttering defamation, in their spoiling, shall also be made a spoil, —
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、
Doing wrong themselves, for a reward of wrong, accounting, a delight, their day-time delicacy, spots and blemishes, indulging in delicacies with their stratagems, as they carouse together 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 an adulteress, and that cannot rest from sin, enticing unstable souls, having, a heart trained in greed, —children of a curse, —
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。
Forsaking a straight path, they have gone astray, following out the way of Balaam [son] of Beor, who loved, a reward of wrong,
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 had, a reproof, of his own transgression, a dumb beast of burden, in man’s voice, finding utterance, forbade the prophet’s madness.
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 fountains without water, and mists, by a tempest, driven along, —for whom, the gloom of darkness, hath been reserved;
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, great swelling words of vanity, uttering, they entice with carnal covetings—in wanton ways—them who are, well-nigh, escaping from the men who, in error, have their behaviour;
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。
Promising, freedom to them, they themselves, being all the while, slaves of corruption, —for, by whom one hath been defeated, by the same, hath he become enslaved, —
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, having escaped from the defilements of the world by a personal knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, but, by the same having again become entangled, they are defeated, the, last, state hath become, for them, worse than, the first;
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, better, had it been for them—not to have obtained a personal knowledge of the way of righteousness, than, having obtained such knowledge, to turn back out of 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。
There hath befallen them the thing [spoken of] in the true proverb—A dog, turning back unto his own vomit, and—A sow, as soon as washed, unto wallowing in mire.
