使徒の働き 7
1 第三 ステファノの説教 時に司祭長、是等の事果して然るか、と云ひしかば、
And the high priest said, Are these things then so?
2 ステファノ云ひけるは、聞かれよ、兄弟にして父たる人々、我等の父アブラハム、カランに住居するに先だちて、メソポタミアに在りし時、光榮の神之に現れて、
And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
3 曰ひけるは、汝國を去り親族を離れて、我が示さん地に至れ、と。
and said to him, Go out of thy land and out of thy kindred, and come into the land which I will shew thee.
4 斯てアブラハムカルデア人の地を出でてカランに住みしが、其父の死後、神は彼處より、汝等が現に住める地に彼を移し給ひ、
Then going out of the land of the Chaldeans he dwelt in Charran, and thence, after his father died, he removed him into this land in which ye now dwell.
5 足踏立つる許の地だに、其地にては遺産を賜はざりき。然れど其地を所有として之に與へ、其時は未だ子あらざりしも、後を子孫に與へん事を約し給ひ、
And he did not give him an inheritance in it, not even what his foot could stand on; and promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he had no child.
6 神之に曰ひけるは、「其子孫は他國に住み、人々之を奴隷と為し、四百年の間虐待せん、
And God spoke thus: His seed shall be a sojourner in a strange land, and they shall enslave them and evil entreat [them] four hundred years;
7 然れども我彼等の仕へし所の國民を審くべし、斯て後彼等其國を出でて、此處にて我を禮拝せん、と主曰へり」、と。
and the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and serve me in this place.
8 アブラハム尚割禮の契約を賜はりしかば、イザアクを生みて八日目に之に割禮を施し、イザアクはヤコブを生み、ヤコブ十二人の太祖を生めり。
And he gave to him [the] covenant of circumcision; and thus he begat Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.
9 太祖等妬みてヨゼフをエジプトに売りたれど、神之と共に在して、
And the patriarchs, envying Joseph, sold him away into Egypt. And God was with him,
10 凡ての患難より救出し、エジプト國王ファラオンより寵愛を得させ、且智恵を賜ひしに由り、ファラオンはエジプトと己が家とを挙げて之に宰らしめたり。
and delivered him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he appointed him chief over Egypt and all his house.
11 然るに全エジプト及カナアンに飢饉と大いなる災難と起り、我等の先祖食物を求め得ざりしに、
But a famine came upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great distress, and our fathers found no food.
12 ヤコブエジプトに麦あるを聞きて、先我等の先祖等を遣はし、
But Jacob, having heard of there being corn in Egypt, sent out our fathers first;
13 次の度にヨゼフ其兄弟に知られ、其族はファラオンに知られたり。
and the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren, and the family of Joseph became known to Pharaoh.
14 ヨゼフ人を遣はして、父なるヤコブ及び其家族、総て七十五人を呼來らししにより、
And Joseph sent and called down to him his father Jacob and all [his] kindred, seventy-five souls.
15 ヤコブエジプトに下り、其身も我等の先祖等も、彼處に死して、
And Jacob went down into Egypt and died, he and our fathers,
16 シケムに送られ、アブラハムが曾てシケムに於てヘモルの子等より銀銭を以て買受けし墓地に葬られたり。
and were carried over to Sychem and placed in the sepulchre which Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the [father] of Sychem.
17 斯て神のアブラハムに誓ひ給ひし約束の時近づきしに、民の數増して大いにエジプトに繁殖したれば、
But as the time of promise drew near which God had promised to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,
18 ヨゼフを知らざる他の王起るに及びて、
until another king over Egypt arose who did not know Joseph.
19 惡計を以て我等の種族に當り、我等の先祖を悩まして、其生子の存へざらん為に之を棄てしめたり。
He dealt subtilly with our race, and evil entreated the fathers, casting out their infants that they might not live.
20 モイゼ此時に當りて生れたりしが、神に美しくして父の家に育てらるる事三月、
In which time Moses was born, and was exceedingly lovely, who was nourished three months in the house of his father.
21 然て遂に棄てられしをファラオンの女取挙げて、己が子として養育したり。
And when he was cast out, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and brought him up for herself [to be] for a son.
22 斯てモイゼはエジプト人の學術を悉く教へられ、言行共に力ありしが、
And Moses was instructed in all [the] wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.
23 満四十歳の時、己が兄弟たるイスラエルの子孫を顧みんとの心起り、
And when a period of forty years was fulfilled to him, it came into his heart to look upon his brethren, the sons of Israel;
24 或人の害せらるるを見て之を防ぎ、エジプト人を討ちて被害者の讐を返せり。
and seeing a certain one wronged, he defended [him], and avenged him that was being oppressed, smiting the Egyptian.
25 モイゼは兄弟等が、神の我手によりて己等を救ひ給ふべきを必ず悟るならんと思ひしに、彼等之を悟らざりき。
For he thought that his brethren would understand that God by his hand was giving them deliverance. But they understood not.
26 翌日彼等の相争へる處に顕れて和睦を勧め、人々よ、汝等は兄弟なるに何ぞ相害するや、と云ひしかば、
And on the morrow he shewed himself to them as they were contending, and compelled them to peace, saying, Ye are brethren, why do ye wrong one another?
27 其近き者を害せる人、之を押退けて云ひけるは、誰か汝を立てて我等の司とし判官とせしぞ、
But he that was wronging his neighbour thrust him away, saying, Who established thee ruler and judge over us?
28 汝は昨日エジプト人を殺しし如く我を殺さんとするか、と。
Dost thou wish to kill me as thou killedst the Egyptian yesterday?
29 此言によりモイゼ脱走してマヂアン地方に旅人と成り、彼處にて二人の子を挙げたり。
And Moses fled at this saying, and became a sojourner in the land of Madiam, where he begat two sons.
30 四十年を経てシナイ山の荒野に於て、燃ゆる茨の焔の中に天使之に現れければ、
And when forty years were fulfilled, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai, in a flame of fire of a bush.
31 モイゼ見て其見る所を怪しみ、見届けんとして近づきけるに、主の聲ありて曰く、
And Moses seeing it wondered at the vision; and as he went up to consider it, there was a voice of [the] Lord,
32 我は汝の先祖等の神、即ちアブラハムの神、イザアクの神、ヤコブの神なり、と。モイゼ戰慄きて、敢て注視ず、
I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob. And Moses trembled, and durst not consider [it].
33 主之に曰はく、足の履物を脱げ、汝の立てる所は聖地なればなり、
And the Lord said to him, Loose the sandal of thy feet, for the place on which thou standest is holy ground.
34 我はエジプトに在る我民の難を顧み、其嘆を聴きて彼等を救はん為に降れり、卒來れ、我汝をエジプトに遣はさん、と。
I have surely seen the ill treatment of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groan, and have come down to take them out of it; and now, come, I will send thee to Egypt.
35 斯て彼等が、誰か汝を立てて我等の司とし判官と為ししぞ、と云ひて拒みし此モイゼをば、神は茨の中に現れし天使の手を以て、司とし救人として遣はし給ひしなり。
This Moses, whom they refused, saying, Who made thee ruler and judge? him did God send [to be] a ruler and deliverer with the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
36 モイゼ彼等を導き出して、エジプトの地に紅海に又荒野に、四十年の間奇蹟と徴とを行ひしが、
He led them out, having wrought wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
37 是ぞイスラエルの子等に向ひて、神は汝等の中より我如き一人の預言者を起し給はん、汝等之に聴くべし、と云ひし其モイゼなる。
This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, A prophet shall God raise up to you out of your brethren like me [him shall ye hear].
38 是即ち曾て荒野に會せし時、シナイ山にて共に語りし天使、及び我等の先祖と共に在りし人、我等に授くべき生命の言を授かりし人なり。
This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received living oracles to give to us;
39 我等の先祖は之に從ふことを拒み、却て彼を斥けて心をエジプトに転じ、
to whom our fathers would not be subject, but thrust [him] from them, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,
40 アアロンに謂へらく、汝は我等に先んずべき神々を我等の為に造れ、蓋我等をエジプトの地より導き出しし彼モイゼに就きては、其如何になりしかを知らず、と。
saying to Aaron, Make us gods who shall go before us; for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has happened to him.
41 斯て彼等其時に當りて犢を造り、偶像に犠牲を献げ、己が手の業によりて喜びたりしかば、
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
42 神は彼等を眷み給はず、其天軍に事ふるに任せ給へり。即ち預言者等の書に録したるが如し、[曰く]「イスラエルの家よ、汝等荒野に於て、四十年の間犠牲と供物とを我に献げしか、
But God turned and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in [the] book of the prophets, Have ye offered me victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
43 汝等はモロクの幕屋、及び汝等の神とせるレンファの星形、即ち禮拝せんとて自ら造れる像を舁廻れり、然れば我汝等をバビロンの彼方に移すべし」と。
Yea, ye took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of [your] god Remphan, the forms which ye made to do homage to them; and I will transport you beyond Babylon.
44 抑證明の幕屋は我等の先祖と共に荒野に在りて、神がモイゼに語りて、自ら見たりし式に從ひて之を造れ、と命じ給ひし如くなりき。
Our fathers had the tent of the testimony in the wilderness, as he that spoke to Moses commanded to make it according to the model which he had seen;
45 斯て異邦人、即ち神が我等の先祖の面前に追払い給ひし民の國を占有せし時に、我等の先祖は此幕屋を取りて、ヨズエと共に之を携へ入りて、ダヴィドの時代に至りしが、
which also our fathers, receiving from their predecessors, brought in with Joshua when they entered into possession of [the lands of] the nations, whom God drove out from [the] face of our fathers, until the days of David;
46 ダヴィドは神の御前に寵を得て、ヤコブの神の為に住處を設けん事を願ひければ、
who found favour before God, and asked to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob;
47 サロモンは神の家を建てたり。
but Solomon built him a house.
48 然れど最高き者は、手にて造れる所に住み給ふ者に非ず、
But the Most High dwells not in [places] made with hands; as says the prophet,
49 即ち「主曰はく、天は我座なり、地は我足台なり、汝等如何なる家をか我に造らん、我が息む所は何處なるか、
The heaven [is] my throne and the earth the footstool of my feet: what house will ye build me? saith [the] Lord, or where [is the] place of my rest?
50 是皆我手の造りたるものならずや」と預言者の云へるが如し。
has not my hand made all these things?
51 項強くして心にも耳にも割禮なき者よ、何時も聖霊に逆らふこと、汝等の先祖の為しし如く、汝等も亦然す、
O stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers, ye also.
52 汝等の先祖は、預言者の中の何れをか迫害せざりし、彼等は義者の來臨を預言せる人々を殺したるに、汝等は今此義者をば売り且殺したる者となれり。
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the Just One, of whom ye have now become deliverers up and murderers!
53 又天使によりて律法を受けしも、汝等は之を守らざりき、と[述べたり]。
who have received the law as ordained by [the] ministry of angels, and have not kept [it].
54 第四 ステファノの最期 此等の事を聞きて、人々の胸は裂くるが如く、ステファノに向ひて切歯すれども、
And hearing these things they were cut to the heart, and gnashed their teeth against him.
55 彼は聖霊に満ちたれば、天を仰ぎて、神の光榮と神の右に立ち給へるイエズスとを見て、
But being full of [the] Holy Spirit, having fixed his eyes on heaven, he saw [the] glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,
56 云ひけるは、看よ、我天開けて、人の子が神の右に立ち給へるを見奉る、と。
and said, Lo, I behold the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.
57 其時彼等耳を覆ひ、聲高く叫びつつ一同に撃ちかかり、
And they cried out with a loud voice, and held their ears, and rushed upon him with one accord;
58 ステファノを市街より追出して石を擲ちしが、立會人はサウロと云へる若者の足下に己が上衣を置けり。
and having cast [him] out of the city, they stoned [him]. And the witnesses laid aside their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul.
59 斯て彼等が石を擲つ程に、ステファノ祈入りて云ひけるは、主イエズス我魂を受け給へ、と。
And they stoned Stephen, praying, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
60 又跪きつつ聲高く呼はりて云ひけるは、主よ、此罪を彼等に負はせ給ふこと勿れ、と。斯く言終りて主に眠りけるが、サウロは彼の死刑に賛成したりき。
And kneeling down, he cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And having said this, he fell asleep.
