ヨハネの黙示録 13
1 第二款 海より起る獣 我又海より一の獣の上るを見たり、其は七の頭と十の角と有りて、其角の上に冠あり、頭の上に冒涜の名あり。
and he stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy.
2 我が見し獣は豹の如く、其足は熊の足の如く、其口は獅子の如くにして、龍は之に己が座と大いなる権力とを與へたり。
And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as [the feet] of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority.
3 我又見たるに、其一の頭死ぬばかり傷つけられたれど、其死ぬべき傷醫されしかば、全世界感嘆して此獣に從ひ、
And [I saw] one of his heads as though it had been smitten unto death; and his death-stroke was healed: and the whole earth wondered after the beast;
4 此獣に力を與へし龍を禮拝し、又獣を禮拝して言ひけるは、誰か此獣の如き者あらんや、誰か之と戰ふを得んや、と。
and they worshipped the dragon, because he gave his authority unto the beast; and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? and who is able to war with him?
5 而して大言と冒涜とを吐く口を與へられ、四十二箇月の間働く権力を與へられ、
and there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and there was given to him authority to continue forty and two months.
6 然て口を開きて神を冒涜し、其御名と其幕屋と天に住める者とを冒涜せり。
And he opened his mouth for blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, [even] them that dwell in the heaven.
7 又聖人等と戰ひ、且之に勝つ事を許され、諸族、諸民、諸語、諸國に對する権力を與へられ、
And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and there was given to him authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation.
8 斯て地上に住める人にして、世の初より殺され給ひたる羔の生命の名簿に名を録されざる人、皆彼獣を禮拝せり。
And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, [every one] whose name hath not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that hath been slain.
9 人耳あらば聞け、
If any man hath an ear, let him hear.
10 擒に牽きし人は自ら擒に往くべく、剣にて殺しし人は剣にて殺さるべし、聖人等の忍耐と信仰と茲にあり。
If any man [is] for captivity, into captivity he goeth: if any man shall kill with the sword, with the sword must he be killed. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
11 第三款 地より起る獣 我又別に地より一の獣の上るを見しが、羔の如き角二ありて、龍の如くに言ひ居り、
And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like unto a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
12 先の獣の前に於て、総て之と等しき力を顕し、地と地に住める人とをして、死ぬばかりの傷の醫されし曩の獣を禮拝せしめたり、
And he exerciseth all the authority of the first beast in his sight. And he maketh the earth and them that dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose death-stroke was healed.
13 又人の眼前に天より火を地に下さしむる程の大いなる徴を為し、
And he doeth great signs, that he should even make fire to come down out of heaven upon the earth in the sight of men.
14 獣の前に為すことを得しめられたる徴を以て、地に住める人を惑はし、之に勧めて、刀の傷はありながら尚生存へし獣の像を造らしめ、
And he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by reason of the signs which it was given him to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who hath the stroke of the sword and lived.
15 此獣の像に生命を與へ、且言ふことを得させ、此獣の像を拝せざる人を殺す力を與へられたり、
And it was given [unto him] to give breath to it, [even] to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as should not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 又大小と貧富と自由の身と奴隷とを問はず、凡ての人に、或は右の手或は額に印章を受けしめ、
And he causeth all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the bond, that there be given them a mark on their right hand, or upon their forehead;
17 此印章若くは獣の名、若くは其名の數を記されたる人々の外、売買する事を得ざらしめたり。
and that no man should be able to buy or to sell, save he that hath the mark, [even] the name of the beast or the number of his name.
18 智恵は是に於てか要せらる、知識ある人は獣の數を算へよ、獣の數は人の數にして、其數は六百六十六なり。
Here is wisdom. He that hath understanding, let him count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man: and his number is Six hundred and sixty and six.
