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、
Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
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、
Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days 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、
explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ."
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。
Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, as did a large number of the devout Greeks, and not a few of the prominent women.
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 Jews, being moved with jealousy, took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to 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、
When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
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 received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus."
8 人民と之を聞ける市の吏員とを煽動し、
The crowd and the rulers of the city were troubled 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。
When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
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、
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
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 noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were 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。
Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.
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 had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, inciting and disturbing the crowds.
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 the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
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。
But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, 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 was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
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。
So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.
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。
Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached 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、
They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?
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 you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore 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 living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
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。
Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
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 passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to 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 made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,
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、
neither is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all 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、
He made from one blood every nation of mankind to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,
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 God, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one 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 in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also 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 think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by human art and design.
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。
The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should 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 has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to everyone 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。
Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, "We want to hear you again concerning this."
33 斯てパウロは、彼等の中より立去りしが、
Thus Paul went out from among 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 some people joined with him, and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
