ヘブル人への手紙 11
1 第二款 舊約時代の英雄の信仰の例 抑信仰は希望すべき事物の保證、見えざる事物の證據なり、
Now faith is assurance of [things] hoped for, a conviction of things not seen.
2 蓋故人之を以て好評を得たり。
For therein the elders had witness borne to them.
By faith we understand that the worlds have been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen hath not been made out of things which appear. (aiōn g165)
4 信仰に由りてアベルは、カインの其に優れる犠牲を神に献げ、信仰に由りて義人たる保證を受け、神其献物を保證し給ひ、彼は信仰に由りて死しても猶言ふなり。
By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God bearing witness in respect of his gifts: and through it he being dead yet speaketh.
5 信仰に由りてヘノクは、死を見ざらん為に移され、神之を移し給ひしに由りて見出されざりき、其は移転の前に神の御意に適へる事を證せられたればなり。
By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God translated him: for he hath had witness borne to him that before his translation he had been well-pleasing unto God:
6 信仰なくしては神の御意に適ふこと能はず、蓋神に近づき奉る人は、必ずや神の存在して之を求め奉る人々に報い給ふ者なる事を信ぜざるべからず。
and without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing [unto him]; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.
7 信仰によりてノエは、未だ見えざる事柄に就きて黙示を蒙り、畏みて家族を救はん為に方舟を造り、之を以て世の人を罪し、其身は信仰に由れる義の世嗣と為られたり。
By faith Noah, being warned [of God] concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
8 信仰に由りてアブラハムは、承継ぐべき地に出づべしとの召に從ひ、何處に行くべきかを知らずして立出でたり。
By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
9 彼は約束の地に於て他國にあるが如く、同じ約束を相継ぐべきイザアク、ヤコブと共に幕屋に住めり、
By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a [land] not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
10 其は神を其設立者、建築者に戴ける、基礎ある都會を待てばなり。
for he looked for the city which hath the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
11 信仰に由りてサラも、石女にして齢過ぎたるに孕を胎す力を得たり、是約し給へる者の忠實に在す事を信じたるが故なり、
By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive seed when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised:
12 斯て一人より、而も既に死せるに齊しき者より出でし人、空の星の如く夥しく、海辺の眞砂の如く數へ難し。
wherefore also there sprang of one, and him as good as dead, [so many] as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the sand, which is by the sea-shore, innumerable.
13 彼等は皆信仰に從ひ、約束のものを受けずして死したれども、遥に望みて之を祝し、地上に於て己は旅人たり寄留人たる事を宣言せり。
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
14 斯く語る人々は、是本國を求むる事を示す者なり。
For they that say such things make it manifest that they are seeking after a country of their own.
15 若其懐へる所曾て出でたる本國ならば、復還る時もありしならん、
And if indeed they had been mindful of that [country] from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return.
16 然れど彼等は、今一層善きもの、即ち天の[本國]を慕ひしなり、故に神は彼等の神と呼ばるるを耻とし給はず、其は彼等の為に都會を備へ給ひたればなり。
But now they desire a better [country], that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city.
17 信仰に由りてアブラハムは、試みられし時イザアクを献げたり、其献げたりしは、約束を蒙りたりし獨子にして、
By faith Abraham, being tried, offered up Isaac: yea, he that had gladly received the promises was offering up his only begotten [son];
18 曾て「汝の子孫と稱へらるるはイザアクによるべし」と謂はれし其者なりき。
[even he] to whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called:
19 即ち彼謂へらく、神は死したる人々をも復活せしむるを得給ふなりと、而して前表として其子を還與へられたり。
accounting that God [is] able to raise up, even from the dead; from whence he did also in a figure receive him back.
20 信仰に由りてイザアクは、将來の事に就きてヤコブとエザウとを祝福せり。
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.
21 信仰に由りてヤコブは、死に臨みてヨゼフの子等を各祝福し、杖の首に倚りて禮拝せり。
By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, [leaning] upon the top of his staff.
22 信仰に由りてヨゼフは、死に臨みてイスラエルの子等の出立を思はしめ、己が骸骨に就きて命を下せり。
By faith Joseph, when his end was nigh, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.
23 信仰に由りてモイゼは、生れて三月の間兩親によりて匿されたり、是其子の美しきを見たるが故にして、彼等は國王の命令を懼れざりき。
By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw he was a goodly child; and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment.
24 信仰に由りてモイゼは、成長してファラオンの女の子たる事を否めり、
By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter;
25 即ち罪によれる暫時の快樂よりも、寧神の民と共に悩むことを擇み、
choosing rather to share ill treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
26 キリストの耻辱を以てエジプトの寳に優れる富とせり、其は報酬を眺め居たればなり。
accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he looked unto the recompense of reward.
27 信仰に由りて彼は、國王の怒を怖れずしてエジプトを去れり、即ち見えざる所を見るが如くにして忍耐せしなり。
By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
28 信仰に由りて彼は過越を祝ひ、又長子を亡ぼせる者の彼等に触れざらん為、[羔の]血を沃ぐ禮を行へり。
By faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.
29 信仰に由りて彼等は、紅海を陸の如くにして渡れり、エジプト人は之を試みて溺れたりき。
By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were swallowed up.
30 信仰に由りてエリコの城壁は、七日の間廻られて崩れたり。
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been compassed about for seven days.
31 信仰に由りて娼婦ラハブは、探偵者を懇切に接待せしかば、不信者と共には亡びざりき。
By faith Rahab the harlot perished not with them that were disobedient, having received the spies with peace.
32 此外に我何をか言はん、ゲデオン、バラク、サムソン、イエフテ、ダヴィド、サムエル及び預言者等の事を述べんには時足らざるべし。
And what shall I more say? for the time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah; of David and Samuel and the prophets:
33 信仰に由りて彼等は、國々に打ち勝ち、義を行ひ、約束を蒙り、獅子の口を塞ぎ、
who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
34 火の勢を消し、剣の刃を迯れ、弱きを強うせられ、軍に勇ましき者と成りて異邦人の陣を破り、
quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, waxed mighty in war, turned to flight armies of aliens.
35 婦人等は其死したりし者を復活を以て還與へられ、或人々は引裂かれて、勝れたる復活を得ん為に迯るる事を肯ぜず、
Women received their dead by a resurrection: and others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
36 或人々は侮辱打擲の上に捕縛入獄に遇ひ、
and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
37 石を擲たれ、鋸にて挽かれ、試され、剣にて殺され、羊山羊の毛皮を纏ひて萬事に缺乏し、責められ悩まされて流浪せり。
they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
38 世は此人々を置くに堪へざりしに、彼等は荒地に山に、地の洞及び穴の内に彷徨ひしなり。
(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.
39 彼等も皆信仰の稱揚を得たれども、約束のものをば得ざりき。
And these all, having had witness borne to them through their faith, received not the promise,
40 是神が我等の為に更に宜しき事を圖り給ひて、我等と共にならでは彼等の全うせられざらん為なり。
God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
