コロサイ人への手紙 2

1 第二項 偽教師に對する論難 我は我が汝等とラオジケアに在る人々と、又未だ我肉身の顔を見ざる一切の人との為に、戰ふ事の如何ばかりなるかを、汝等の知らん事を欲す。

For I would have you know how greatly I strive for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

2 是其心慰められ、愛を以て繋がれ、全き智識の諸の富に満たされて、父にて在す神、及びキリスト、イエズスの奥義を識るに至らん為にして、

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, [even] Christ,

3 智識及び學識の諸の寳、彼に隠れて存すればなり。

in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.

4 我が之を言ふは、誰も巧みなる談話を以て汝等を欺く事なからん為なり。

This I say, that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

5 蓋我肉體にては不在なれども、精神にては汝等と共に居り、汝等の秩序とキリストに於る信仰の堅固なるとを見て之を喜ぶ。

For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

6 然れば汝等主イエズス、キリストを承けしが如く之に在りて歩み、

As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, [so] walk in him,

7 之に根ざし之が上に建てられて、學びしが如く信仰に固まり、之に成長して感謝し奉れ。

rooted and builded up in him, and established in your faith, even as ye were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

8 空しき虚言なる哲學を以て誰にも欺かれざる様注意せよ、其は人間の傳と世の小學とに由るものにして、キリストに由るものに非ず。

Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:

9 蓋神性は殘なく實體的にキリストの中に充満ちて宿れるなり。

for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,

10 彼は諸の権勢及び能力の頭にて在す、汝等之に在りて充満し、

and in him ye are made full, who is the head of all principality and power:

11 又之に於て割禮を受けたり。其割禮は手にて為せるものに非ずして、肉身を取除く所のキリストの割禮なり。

in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

12 汝等は洗禮を以て彼と共に葬られ、又彼を死者の中より復活せしめ給ひし神の大能を信仰せるを以て、彼によりて復活したるなり。

having been buried with him in baptism, wherein ye were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

13 斯て汝等、罪と肉身の無割禮とによりて死したる者なりしに、神は汝等に悉く罪を赦して、キリストと共に更に活かし給ひ、

And you, being dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you, [I say], did he make alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses;

14 我等に迫りて我等に反せる誡の書を取消し、之を中間より取去りて十字架に釘け、

having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

15 [堕落の]権勢及び能力等を剥ぎて敢て之を擒にし、キリストの御身に於て公然是等に打勝ち給へり。

having despoiled the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

16 然れば食物、或は飲物、或は祭日、或は朔日、或は安息日に関しては、誰にもあれ汝等を咎むべからず、

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day:

17 是等の事は後に在るべき事の影にして、本體はキリストなり。

which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.

18 誰にもあれ、故に謙遜[を装ひ]、天使崇拝を以て汝等の褒美を取るべからず。斯る人は見ざる事に立入りて徒に肉的思念に誇り、

Let no man rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he hath seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

19 頭たる者に属せざるなり。全體は此頭よりしてこそ、関節及び繊維を以て組立てられ且聯りて、神によりて成長するなれ。

and not holding fast the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increaseth with the increase of God.

20 汝等若キリストと共に此世の小學に就きて死したる者ならば、何ぞ尚世に在るが如く身を掟に服せしむるや。

If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,

21 謂ゆる触るる勿れ、味ふ勿れ、扱ふ勿れの類は、

Handle not, nor taste, nor touch

22 皆用ふるに随ひて盡くるものにして、人間の誡と教とによれり。

(all which things are to perish with the using), after the precepts and doctrines of men?

23 彼の崇拝、謙遜、身を吝まざる點に於ては、道理めきたるものなれども、其實は尊き事なく、唯肉慾を飽かしむるのみ。

Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will-worship, and humility, and severity to the body; [but are] not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.