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1 第三項 キリストの降臨及び世の終。 至愛なる者よ、我が今此第二の書簡を贈るは、此兩の書簡を以て汝等の正直なる理性を喚起し、
This, a second letter, beloved, I already write to you, in [both] which I stir up, in the way of putting you in remembrance, your pure mind,
2 聖なる預言者等の預め語りし言、及び汝等の使徒等の傳へし、救主にて在す主の命令を記憶せしめん為なり。
to be mindful of the words spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of the Lord and Saviour by your apostles;
3 先此事を知るべし、末の日には、己の慾に從ひて歩める嘲弄者等來りて言はん、
knowing this first, that there shall come at [the] close of the days mockers with mocking, walking according to their own lusts,
4 其降臨の約束は何處にかある、先祖等の眠りし以來、開闢の初に齊しく、総て變わる事なきに、と。
and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for from the time the fathers fell asleep all things remain thus from [the] beginning of [the] creation.
5 彼等は、故に次の事を知らざるが如し。即ち原天あり、地も亦神の御言によりて、水より出でて水を以て成立ちたりしに、
For this is hidden from them through their own wilfulness, that heavens were of old, and an earth, having its subsistence out of water and in water, by the word of God,
6 其時の世は、又神の御言と水とにより、水に溺れて亡びたりき。
through which [waters] the then world, deluged with water, perished.
7 然るに今在る所の天と地とは、同じ御言を以て保存せられ、火に焼かれん為に、敬虔ならざる者の審判と亡との日まで保たるるなり。
But the present heavens and the earth by his word are laid up in store, kept for fire unto a day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
8 至愛なる者よ、汝等斯一事を知らざるべからず、即ち主に於ては一日は一千年の如く、一千年は一日の如し。
But let not this one thing be hidden from you, beloved, that one day with [the] Lord [is] as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 或人々の思へるが如くに、主は御約束を延し給ふに非ず、唯人の亡ぶるを好み給はずして皆改心するに至らんことを好み給ふにより、汝等の為に忍耐を以て處置し給ふなり。
[The] Lord does not delay his promise, as some account of delay, but is longsuffering towards you, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 然れど主の日は盗人の如く來るべし、其時天は大いなる轟を以て去り、物質は焼毀れ、地と其上なる被造物とは焼毀びん。
But the day of [the] Lord will come as a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and [the] elements, burning with heat, shall be dissolved, and [the] earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.
11 斯の如く萬物の毀るべきを覚りて、汝等は如何にも聖なる行状及び敬虔の業に於て、
All these things then being to be dissolved, what ought ye to be in holy conversation and godliness,
12 主の日の來るを待ち、且之を早むべきなり。彼日に當りて、天は燃毀れ、物質は火勢を以て鎔かさるべし。
waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, by reason of which [the] heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and [the] elements, burning with heat, shall melt?
13 然れど我等は其約束に從ひて、義の住む所の新しき天と新しき地とを待つなり。
But, according to his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.
14 是故に、至愛なる者よ、自ら是等の事を待ちつつ、平和に於て汚染なく瑕疵なく認められん事を努めよ。
Wherefore, beloved, as ye wait for these things, be diligent to be found of him in peace, without spot and blameless;
15 又我主の忍耐を救なりと思へ。我等が至愛の兄弟パウロが、其賜はりたる知識を以て汝等に書贈り、
and account the longsuffering of our Lord [to be] salvation; according as our beloved brother Paul also has written to you according to the wisdom given to him,
16 又凡ての書簡に於て是等の事に就きて語りしが如し。彼が書簡には往々暁り難き所ありて、無學者と心の堅からざる者とは、他の聖書を曲解するが如く、之をも曲解して自ら亡に至る。
as also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these things; among which some things are hard to be understood, which the untaught and ill-established wrest, as also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.
17 然れば兄弟等よ、汝等は豫め之を知りて注意せよ、不法人の迷に誘はれて己が堅固を失ふこと勿れ。
Ye therefore, beloved, knowing [these] things before, take care lest, being led away along with the error of the wicked, ye should fall from your own stedfastness:
The World is Destroyed by Water
