使徒の働き 17
1 其よりアンフィポリとアポロニアとを経てテサロニケに至りしが、此處にユデア人の會堂ありければ、
SO journeying through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of Jews:
2 パウロ例によりて彼等の中に入り、三の安息日に亘りて、聖書に就きて弁論し、
And Paul, according to his usual custom, went in to them, and for three sabbaths he reasoned with them from the scriptures,
3 キリストが必ず苦しみて死者の中より復活すべかりし事と、我が汝等に告ぐるイエズスがキリストたる事とを説きて論證したるに、
opening them clearly, and laying it evidently down that the Messiah must suffer, and rise again from the dead; and that this man is the Messiah, even Jesus, whom I preach unto you.
4 其中の或人々、及び神を尊べる數多のギリシア人、其他貴婦人等も少からず承服して、パウロとシラとに属けり。
And some of them believed, and associated themselves with Paul and Silas; and of the religious Greeks a vast multitude, and of the wives of the first people not a few.
5 然るにユデア人妬を起して、無頼漢の中より數人の惡者を手に属け、人々を招集して市中を騒がし、又ヤソンの家を圍みてパウロとシラとを人民の前に引出さんと努めたりしが、
But the unbelieving Jews, roused to a fit of zeal, and taking some of the lowest vulgar men of vile characters, and raising a mob, set the city in an uproar, and besetting the house of Jason, sought them to bring them unto the people.
6 彼等を見付け得ず、ヤソンと數人の兄弟とを市の吏員の許に引行きて、天下を覆したる彼人々此處にも來れるを、
But not finding them there, they dragged Jason and certain brethren to the city magistrates, roaring out, These are the men who are movers of sedition through the world, and are come in hither;
7 ヤソンが承容れて、一同にイエズス[と云ふ]王別に在りと稱へ、セザルの勅令に逆らふなり、と叫びつつ、
whom Jason has entertained in his house: and the practice of all these fellows is in direct opposition to all Caesar’s ordinances, for they affirm that another is king, one Jesus.
8 人民と之を聞ける市の吏員とを煽動し、
And they greatly agitated the people and the city magistrates when they heard these things.
9 ヤソン及び其他の人々より保證金を受けて之を赦せり。
So after taking sufficient security from Jason and the rest, they dismissed them.
10 然て兄弟等直に、パウロとシラとを夜の中にベレアへ送りしかば、彼等其處に着きてユデア人の會堂に入りしが、
Then the disciples immediately by night sent off both Paul and Silas to Berea; who were no sooner arrived, than they went into the synagogue of the Jews.
11 此處の人々はテサロニケに在る者等よりは、高尚にして、熱心に言を承け、此事果して然りや否やと、日々聖書を調べ居たり。
Now these were more liberally minded men than those of Thessalonica, for they received the word with all readiness of mind, daily, examining the Scriptures if these things were really so.
12 斯て其中に信じたる人多く、ギリシアの貴婦人にも男子にも其數少からざりき。
Then many of them truly believed: and of the Grecian proselyte women of respectability, and of the men not a few.
13 然る程にテサロニケに在るユデア人、ベレアにもパウロによりて神の御言の傳はれるを知り、又此處に來りて、群集を煽動して騒がししかば、
But when the Jews of Thessalonica knew that at Berea also the word of God was preached by Paul, they came thither, and stirred up the populace.
14 兄弟等即時にパウロを海辺に至らしめ、シラとチモテオとはベレアに留れり。
Then immediately on this the brethren sent off Paul, to go as if by sea: but Silas and Timothy abode there still.
15 パウロを案内せる人々はアデンスまで送行きしが、シラとチモテオとに成るべく速に我許に來れとの命を、パウロより受けて立歸れり。
And those who conduced Paul brought him as far as Athens, and receiving an injunction for Silas and Timothy that they should come to him as speedily as possible, they departed.
16 パウロアデンスに在りて彼等を待てる間、此都會の偶像崇拝に耽るを見て憤激し、
Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit within him was greatly grieved, beholding the city so devoted to idolatry.
17 會堂にてはユデア人及びユデア教に歸依せし人々と論じ、市場にても居合せたる人々と日毎に論じ居たり。
Therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews, and those who worshipped there, and in the forum every day with those he happened to meet.
18 時にエピクリアン及びストイック派の哲學者數人、之と論じ合ひけるが、或人は、此囀人は何を云ふ者ぞ、と云ひ、或人は、彼は新しき鬼神を告ぐる者の如し、と云ひ居たり、是パウロがイエズスと復活との福音を彼等に告ぐればなり。
Then certain of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers attacked him: and some said, What will this chattering fellow say? but others, He seemeth to be a preacher of foreign deities, because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.
19 斯てパウロをアレオパグに連行きて云ひけるは、汝が説ける此新しき教は如何なるものぞ、我等之を知ることを得べきか、
So they took him and led him to the hill of Mars, saying, May we know what this novel doctrine taught by thee is?
20 即ち汝は何等かの新しき事を我等の耳に入るるが故に、我等は其何事なるかを知らんと欲するなり、と。
For thou bringest some strange stories to our ears; we wish therefore to know what these things mean.
21 蓋アデンス人も寄留人も皆、唯耳新しき何事かを、或は言ひ或は聞きて日を送る者なりき。
Now all the Athenians and the strangers who come to sojourn there, take pleasure in spending their time in nothing else but in talking, or hearing of some novelty.
22 其時パウロアレオパグの中央に立ちて云ひけるは、アデンス人よ我は汝等が萬事に於て宗教心の甚だ厚きが如きを認む。
Then Paul standing in the midst of the Areopagus said, Ye men of Athens, I observe that in all things ye are too much devoted to the worship of daemons.
23 即ち通りがけに、熟汝等の禮拝物を見て、知れざる神に[献ぐ]、と記せる祠をも見付けたればなり。然れば我汝等が知らずして尊べる其者をば汝等に告げん。
For as I walked about, and attentively viewed the objects of your worship, I found even an altar on which was this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore you in ignorance adore, him I preach unto you.
24 世界と其中に在る一切の物とを造り給へる神は、天地の主にて在せば、手にて造れる宮には住み給はず、
The God who created the world, and all things in it, he that is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples of man’s construction;
25 御自萬物に生命と呼吸と一切の事とを賜へば、何等の乏しき所あるものの如く、人手にて事へらるる者に非ず、
nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed any creature, himself imparting to all beings life, and breath, and all things.
26 一人よりして地の全面に住ふまでに人類を造為し給ひ、季節と住居の界とを定め給へるは、
And hath made from one man’s blood all the nations of mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, fixing the predetermined periods of their existence, and the boundaries of their several abodes;
27 是人をして神を求め、或は探出さしめん為なり。然れども彼は、我等面々を離れ給ふ事遠からず、
that they should seek the Lord, if indeed they might haply grope him out, and find him, though truly he is not far from any individual of us:
28 蓋彼に在りてこそ、我等は且活き且動き且存在するなれ。汝等が詩人の誰彼も、我等も亦彼が裔なり、と云へるが如し。
for from him we derive life, and power of motion, and existence; as also some of your own poets have said, “For we are even his offspring.”
29 斯く我等は神の裔なれば、神を金、或は銀、或は石、即ち芸術及び人の想像に由れる彫刻に似たる者と思ふべからず。
Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to imagine that the Divinity is like to gold, or silver, or stone sculptured by human art or contrivance.
30 神は斯る蒙昧の時代を見過し給ひて、今人に向ひて、何處にても悉く改心すべしと命じ給ふ。
These times indeed of ignorance God then overlooked; but he now commands all men in every place to repent:
31 蓋日を期し給ひて、其日自ら立て給ひし一個の人、即ち之を死者の中より復活せしめて萬民の前に保證し給ひたる一人を以て、世界を義に從ひて審かんとし給ふなり、と。
because he hath fixed the day in which he will judge the whole world in righteousness by the man whom he hath appointed; affording evidence of this to all, by raising him from the dead.
32 死者の復活と聞きて、或人々は、嘲笑ひ、或人々は、我等の事に就きて復汝に聴かん、と云へり。
But when they heard of the resurrection from the dead, Some scoffed: and others said, We will hear thee again on this subject.
33 斯てパウロは、彼等の中より立去りしが、
And so Paul departed from the midst of them.
34 之に從ひて信仰せる者數人あり。其中にアレオパグの裁判官ジオニジオ、ダマリスと云へる婦人、其他尚ありき。
But certain persons cleaving to him, believed: among whom was even Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
