使徒の働き 19
1 然るにアポルロコリントに居りし時、パウロは高地の方を巡りてエフェゾに來り、或弟子等に遇ひて、
While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland districts of Roman Asia, and went to Ephesus. There he found some disciples, of whom he asked:
2 汝等信者となりて聖霊を蒙りたるか、と云ひしに、彼等、我等は聖霊の在る事すら聞きし事なし、と云ひしかば、
“Did you, when you became believers in Christ, receive the Holy Spirit?” “No,” they answered, “we did not even hear that there was a Holy Spirit.”
3 パウロ云ひけるは、然らば何によりて洗せられたるぞ、と。彼等云へらく、ヨハネの洗禮を受けたるなり、と。
“What then was your baptism?” Paul asked.
4 パウロ云ひけるは、ヨハネは、己の後に來るべき者、即ちイエズスを信ずべし、と言ひつつ、改心の洗禮を以て人民を洗したるなり、と。
“John’s baptism was a baptism upon repentance,” rejoined Paul, “and John told the people (speaking of the ‘One Coming; after him) that they should believe in him — that is in Jesus.”
5 彼等之を聞きて主イエズスの御名に由りて洗せられ、
On hearing this, they were baptized into the faith of the Lord Jesus,
6 パウロ之に按手せしかば、聖霊彼等の上に降り給ひて、彼等異國語を語り、且預言したり、
and, after Paul had placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit descended upon them, and they began to speak with ‘tongues’ and to preach.
7 是等の男子凡十二人なりき。
There were about twelve of them in all.
8 パウロ會堂に入りて三箇月の間憚らず語り、神の國に就きて論じ、人々を勧め居りしが、
Paul went to the Synagogue there, and for three months spoke out fearlessly, giving addresses and trying to convince his hearers, about the kingdom of God.
9 或は頑固になりて信ぜず、主の道を群衆の前に罵る者ありければ、パウロ彼等を去りて弟子等をも別れしめ、日々チランノと云へる人の教場にて弁論し居たり。
Some of them, however, hardened their hears and refused to believe, denouncing the Cause before the people. So Paul left them and withdrew his disciples, and gave daily addresses in the lecture-hall of Tyrannus.
10 斯く為る事二年に渉りしかば、ユデア人も異邦人も[小]アジアに住める者は総て主の御言を聞くに至り、
This went on for two years, so that all who lived in Roman Asia, Jews and Greeks alike, heard the Lord’s Message.
11 神は又凡ならぬ奇蹟をパウロの手に由りて行ひ給ひ、
God did miracles of no ordinary kind by Paul’s hands;
12 其身より手拭或は帯を取りて病人に着くれば、病ひ彼等を離れ惡鬼立去る程なりき。
so that people would carry home to the sick handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his body, and their diseases would leave them and the wicked spirits go out of them.
13 然るに各地を巡るユデアの呪術師の中なる或人々は、パウロが宣ぶるイエズスによりて我汝に命ず、と云ひて、惡鬼に憑かれたる人の上に、試に主イエズスの御名を呼べり。
An attempt was made by some itinerant Jews, who were exorcists, to use the Name of the Lord Jesus over those who had wicked spirits in them. “I adjure you,” they would say, “by the Jesus, whom Paul preaches.”
14 斯く為せるはユデア人なるスケヴァ大司祭の七人の男子なりしが、
The seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish Chief Priest, were doing this;
15 惡鬼答へて、我イエズスを知り、パウロを知れり、然れど汝等は誰ぞ、と云ひて、
but the wicked spirit answered them: “Jesus I acknowledge, and Paul I know, but you — who are you?”
16 極惡の魔鬼に憑かれたる其人彼等に飛蒐り、二人を取押へて責めしかば、彼等裸體に為られ傷けられて、其家を逃去れり。
Then the man, in whom this wicked spirit was, sprang upon them, mastered both of them, and so completely overpowered them, that they fled out of the house, stripped of their clothes, and wounded.
17 此事エフェゾに住めるユデア人及びギリシア人一般に知れ渡りしかば、恐怖は一同の上を襲ひて、主イエズスの御名崇められつつありき。
This incident came to the knowledge of all the Jews and Greeks living at Ephesus; they were all awe-struck, and the Name of the Lord Jesus was held in the highest honour.
18 斯て信仰せる人々多く來り、己が行ひし事を説顕はして之を告白し居り、
Many, too, of those who had become believers in Christ came with a full confession of their practices;
19 又曾て魔術を行ひたりし人々多く其書籍を持來り、衆人の前にて焼盡ししが、其代價を算りて銀貨五萬なる事を認めたり。
while a number of people, who had practiced magic, collected their books and burnt them publicly; and on reckoning up the price of these, they found it amounted to five thousand pounds.
20 神の御言の弘まりて勢力を得つつある事斯の如くなりき。
So irresistibly did the Lord’s Message spread and prevail.
21 是等の事を為遂げて後、パウロ聖霊に勧められて、マケドニア及びアカヤを経てエルザレムへ往かんと志し、我彼處に至りて後ロマをも見ざるべからず、と謂ひて、
Sometime after these events Paul resolved to go through Macedonia and Greece, and then make his way to Jerusalem. “And after I have been there,” he said, “I must visit Rome also.”
22 從者の中チモテオとエラストとの二人をマケドニアに遣し、其身は暫く[小]アジアに留れり。
So he sent to Macedonia two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, while he himself stayed for some time longer in Roman Asia.
23 然て此時に當り、主の道に就きて、一方ならぬ騒動起れり。
Just about that time a great disturbance arose about the Cause.
24 即ちデメトリオと云へる一人の銀細工屋あり、ヂアナ女神の銀の厨子を造りて、細工人等に得さする利益少からざりしが、
A silversmith named Demetrius, who made silver models of the shrine of Artemis, and so gave a great deal of work to the artisans,
25 其細工人及び同業の職工を呼集めて云ひけるは、男等よ、我等の利益が此細工に依れる事は汝等の知る所にして、
got these men together, as well as the workmen engaged in similar occupations, and said: “Men, you know that our prosperity depends upon this work,
26 彼パウロが、手にて造れるものは神に非ず、と云ひて、既にエフェゾのみならず、殆全アジアを説勧めて、夥しき人を遠ざからしめし事も、亦汝等の見聞せる所なり。
and you see and hear that not only at Ephesus, but in almost the whole of Roman Asia, this Paul has convinced and won over great numbers of people, by his assertion that those Gods which are made by hands are not Gods at all.
27 之より起る危険は、啻に我等が職業の信用を失ふ耳ならず、ヂアナ大女神の宮も`蔑にせられ、アジア及び世界挙りて崇め奉る大女神の威厳も失行くべき事是なり、と。
So that not only is this business of ours likely to fall into discredit, but there is the further danger that the Temple of the great Goddess Artemis will be thought nothing of, and that she herself will be deprived of her splendour — though all Roman Asia and the whole world worship her.”
28 彼等之を聞きて怒胸に満ち、叫びて、大いなる哉エフェゾ人のヂアナ、と云へり。
When they heard this, the men were greatly enraged, and began shouting — “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
29 斯て市中挙りて大いに騒ぎ立ち、相一致して、パウロの友なるマケドニア人ガイオとアリスタルコとを捕へて劇場に押入りたり。
The commotion spread through the whole city, and the people rushed together into the amphitheater, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, two Macedonians who were Paul’s traveling companions.
30 パウロも群衆の中に入込まんとせしを弟子等許さず、
Paul wished to go into the amphitheater and face the people, but the disciples would not let him,
31 又[小]アジアにて國祭を司れる上官中に、パウロの親友なる人々あり、使にて、劇場に立入らざらん事を云ひ遣りしが、
while some of the chief religious officials of the province, who were friendly to him, sent repeated entreaties to him not to trust himself inside.
32 人々は彼是と叫び居たり、其は會衆混雑して、大方の人は己等が何故に集りしかをさえ知らざればなり。
Meanwhile some were shouting one thing and some another, for the Assembly was all in confusion, most of those present not even knowing why they had met.
33 斯てユデア人より突遣られたるアレキサンドルを雑踏の中より引出ししに、彼手眞似して静まらん事を乞ひ、人民に事の由を述べんとしたれど、
But some of the crowd prompted Alexander, whom the Jews had pushed to the front, and he waved his hand to show that he wanted to speak in their defence to the people.
34 人々彼がユデア人なるを見知るや、皆異口同音に殆二時間に渉りて、大いなる哉エフェゾ人のヂアナ、と叫べり。
However, when they recognised him as a Jew, one cry broke from them all, and they continued shouting for two hours — “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
35 斯て書記官群衆を鎮めて後云ひけるは、エフェゾ人よ、エフェゾの市はヅウスの裔なるヂアナ大女神の宮に事へ奉る者たる事誰かは知らざらん、
When the Recorder had succeeded in quieting the crowd, he said: “Men of Ephesus, who is there, I ask you, who needs to be told that this city of Ephesus is the Warden of the Temple of the great Artemis, and of the statue which fell down from Zeus?
36 是拒むべからざる事なれば、汝等宜しく穏便にして、何事も軽率に為すべからず。
As these are undeniable facts, you ought to keep calm and do nothing rash;
37 即ち汝等は此人々を召連れたれども、彼等は宮の物を盗みたるにも非ず、我等の女神を罵りたるにも非ず。
for you have brought these men here, though they are neither robbers of Temples nor blasphemers of our Goddess.
38 若しデメトリオ及び其友なる細工人等、或人に就きて訴ふる所あらば、法廷の開かれたるあり、地方総督の在るあり、人々互に告訴すべし。
If, however, Demetrius and the artisans who are acting with him have a charge to make against any one, there are Court Days and there are Magistrates; let both parties take legal proceedings.
39 汝等若他の問題に就きて議する事あらば、正當の議會に於て之を決するを得べし。
But if you want anything more, it will have to be settled in the regular Assembly.
40 蓋今日の事に就きては、騒亂の咎を受くる懼あり、其は此集會の事を弁解すべき理由、我等に一もあらざればなり、と。
For I tell you that we are in danger of being proceeded against for to-day’s riot, there being nothing to account for it; and in that case we shall be at a loss to give any reason for this disorderly gathering.”
41 書記官は斯く云ひ終りて散會を告げたり。
With these words he dismissed the Assembly.
