ヘブル人への手紙 2

1 故に我等は漂流する事なき様、承りし所を一層能く守らざるべからず。

FOR this reason we ought to attend more diligently to the things which have been heard, lest by any means we let them flow by us.

2 其は天使等を以て告げられし言すら固くせられ、犯罪と不從順とは悉く正しき報を受けたれば、

For if the discourse spoken by angels was confirmed, and every transgression and disobedience received a just punishment as its due,

3 若我等にして斯も大いなる救を等閑にせば、争でか迯るることを得ん。此救は原主より示されて始りたるに、承りし人々より我等に言證められ、

how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation, which, commencing at the beginning to be spoken by the Lord, was confirmed unto us by those who had heard him;

4 神も亦思召に從ひて、徴と奇蹟と、能力の様々の業と、聖霊の賜の分配を以て、彼人々と共に之を保證し給ひしなり。

God superadding his testimony with them, by signs, and wonders, and various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?

5 蓋今言ふ所の将來の世界を天使等に從はせ給ひしには非ず、

For he hath not subjected the future world, of which we are speaking, to the angels.

6 或人何處かに證して曰く、「人は誰なれば主之を記憶し給ひ、人の子は誰なれば之を訪問し給ふぞ、

But one in a certain passage testifieth, saying, “What is man, that thou rememberest him, or a son of man, that thou regardest him?”

7 主之をして少しく天使等に劣らしめ、冠らしむるに光榮と名誉とを以てし、御手の業の上に之を立て、

“Thou hast made him for a little while lower than angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour, and hast placed him over the works of thy hands:

8 萬物を其足の下に服せしめ給ひしなり」と。然て萬物を之に服せしめ給ひし上は、服せざるものを殘し給はざりしならんに、我等は現に未だ萬物の之に服するを見ざるなり。

thou hast subjected all things under his feet.” Now in subjecting all things to him, he left nothing unsubjected to him; but at present we see not yet all things subjected to him.

9 然れど天使等に少しく劣らせられしもの、即ちイエズスを見奉るに、神の恩寵により一切の人間の為に死を嘗め給はんとて、死の苦の故に、冠らしむるに光榮と名誉とを以てせられ給ひしなり。

But we see Jesus for a little while made lower than angels, by the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour, that, by the grace of God, he might taste of death for every one.

10 蓋萬物は神の為に、又神によりて造られたるものなれば、多くの子を光榮に導き給へるもの、即ち彼等の救霊の原に在せるものをば、宜しく苦を以て全うし給ふべきは、神に於て適當なる事なりき。

For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to perfect the Author of their salvation by sufferings.

11 然て聖と成らしめ給ふものも、聖と為らるる人々も、共に同一のものより出づ、故に彼、人々を兄弟と呼ぶを耻とせずして曰はく、

For both he that sanctifies, and they who are sanctified, are all of one. For which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

12 「我御名を我兄弟等に告げん、集會の中に汝を賛美し奉らん」と。

saying, “I will declare thy name to my brethren, in the midst of the church I will sing hymns to thee.”

13 又「我彼に信頼せん」と、又「我と神の我に賜ひし子等とを見よ」と。

And again, “I will place my confidence in him.” And again, “Behold! Here am I, and the children which God hath given me.”

14 抑子等は血肉を有する者なれば、彼も亦之を有し給へり。是死を司れるもの、即ち惡魔を亡ぼすに死を以てし、

Seeing therefore that the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he also himself, in exact resemblance, partook of the same, that by death he might destroy him who held the power of death, that is, the devil;

15 且死を懼るるが為に生涯奴隷に属せる人々を救ひ給はん為なり。

and deliver those, even as many as through their whole life were subjects of bondage to the fear of death.

16 蓋曾て天使等を救ひ給はずして、アブラハムの裔を救ひ給ひしかば、

For he verily took not on him the angelic nature, but assumed that of the seed of Abraham.

17 萬事兄弟等に似るべき筈なりき、是神の御前に慈悲にして忠信なる大司祭と成り、民の罪を贖ひ給はん為なりき。

Wherefore he ought in all things to be made like to his brethren, in order to become a merciful and faithful high-priest in those things which relate to God, to make a propitiation for the sins of the people:

18 蓋御自ら苦みて試みられ給ひたれば、試みらるる人々をも助くるを得給ふなり。

for inasmuch as he hath himself suffered, having been tempted, he is able to succour those who are tempted.