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、
After passing through Amphipolis and Apollonia, Paul and Silas came to Thessalonica. Here the Jews had a 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、
and, following his usual custom, Paul joined them, and for three Sabbaths addressed them, drawing his arguments 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、
He laid before them and explained that the Christ must undergo suffering and rise from the dead; and “It is this man,” he declared, “who is the Christ — this Jesus about whom I am telling 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。
Some of the people were convinced, and threw in their lot with Paul and Silas, as did also a large body of Greeks who were accustomed to join in the Jewish services, and a great number of women belonging to the leading families.
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, becoming jealous, engaged some worthless fellows from the streets, and, getting a mob together, kept the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason’s house, with the intention of bringing Paul and Silas before the Popular Assembly;
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、
and, not finding them there, they proceeded to drag Jason and some of the Brethren before the City Magistrates, shouting out: “These men, who have turned the world upside down, have now come here,
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、
and have been harboured by Jason! They say that some one else is king — a man called Jesus!”
8 人民と之を聞ける市の吏員とを煽動し、
On hearing this, the people and the City Magistrates were much concerned;
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。
and, before letting them go, they took bail from Jason and the others.
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、
That very night the Brethren sent Paul and Silas off to Beroea; and on reaching that place, they went to 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。
These Jews of Beroea were better disposed than those in Thessalonica, for they welcomed the Message with great readiness, and daily examined the Scriptures to see if what was said was true.
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。
As a consequence, many of them became believers in Christ, besides a considerable number of Greek women of position, and of men also.
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 found out that God’s Message had been delivered by Paul at Beroea, they came there too, exciting and disturbing the minds of the people.
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。
Immediately upon that, the Brethren sent Paul off on his way to the sea coast, but both Silas and Timothy stayed behind in Beroea.
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。
The friends who escorted Paul took him as far as Athens, and, after receiving a message for Silas and Timothy to join him as quickly as possible, they started on their return.
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、
While Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his heart was stirred at seeing the whole 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 argued in the Synagogue with the Jews and with those who joined in their worship, as well as daily in the public Square with those who happened to be there.
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。
Among others, some Epicurean and Stoic Philosophers joined issue with him. Some would ask “What is this prater wanting to make out?”, while others would say “He seems to be a Preacher of foreign Deities.” (This was because he was telling the Good News about 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 laid hold of him and took him to the Court of Areopagus. “May we hear,” they asked, “what new teaching this is which you are giving?
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 are bringing some strange things to our notice, and we should like to know what they 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。
(All Athenians and the foreigners staying in the city found no time for anything else but telling, or listening to, the last 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。
So Paul took his stand in the middle of the Court, and said — “Men of Athens, on every hand I see signs of your being very devout.
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 was going about, looking at your sacred shrines, I came upon an altar with this inscription — ‘To an Unknown God.’ What, therefore, you worship in ignorance, that I am now proclaiming 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 that are in it — he, Lord as he is of Heaven and Earth, does not dwell in temples made by 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、
nor yet do human hands minister to his wants, as though he needed anything, since 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 all races of the earth’s surface — fixing a time for their rise and fall, and the limits of their settlements —
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 might search for God, if by any means they might feel their way to him and find him. And yet he is not really far from any 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 are. To use the words of some of your own poets — ‘His offspring, too, are we.’
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。
Therefore, as the offspring of God, we must not think that the Deity has any resemblance to anything made of gold, or silver, or stone — a work of human art and imagination.
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。
True, God looked with indulgence on the days of men’s ignorance, but now he is announcing to every one everywhere the need for repentance,
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 fixed a day on which he intends to ‘judge the world with justice,’ by a man whom he has appointed — and of this he has given all men a pledge by raising this man 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。
On hearing of a resurrection of the dead, some began jeering, but others said that they would hear what he had to say about that another time.
33 斯てパウロは、彼等の中より立去りしが、
And so Paul left the Court.
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。
There were, however, some men who joined him, and became believers in Christ. Among them were Dionysius, a member of the Court of Areopagus, a woman named Damaris, and several others.
