ヨハネの黙示録 17

1 第五項 大いなるバビロネの處罰 然て七の器を持てる七の天使の一來りて我に謂ひけるは、來れ、我汝に示すに、多くの水の上に坐せる大淫婦の宣告を以てせん。

And there came one of the seven angels that had the seven bowls, and spake with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the judgment of the great harlot that sitteth upon many waters;

2 地上の諸國王之と姦淫を行ひ、地に住める人々其淫亂の酒に酔ひたりき、と。

with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and they that dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her fornication.

3 斯て我氣を奪はれ、彼天使に荒野に携へられて見たるに、緋色の獣に乗りたる一人の婦あり、獣は渾身冒涜の名を以て覆はれ、七の頭と十の角あり。

And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness: and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

4 婦は緋色、紫色の服を着し、金、寳石、眞珠を以て身を飾り、手には憎むべきものと其淫亂の穢とに満てる金の器あり。

And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations, even the unclean things of her fornication,

5 其額には書記されたる名あり、曰く「奥義、大いなるバビロネ、地上の淫婦等と憎むべきこととの母」と。

and upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

6 此婦を見るに、諸聖人の血及びイエズスの殉教者等の血に酔へる者なれば、我之を見て大いに驚けり。

And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with a great wonder.

7 天使我に謂ひけるは、何の故に驚くぞ、我此婦の奥義と、七の頭、十の角ありて之を乗せたる獣の奥義とを汝に語らん。

And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou wonder? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and the ten horns.

8 汝の見し獣は曾て有りしも今在らず、後には底なき淵より上りて亡に至らん。地上に住みて世の開闢より以後生命の名簿に名を記されざる人々は、曾て有りしも今は在らずして後に顕るべき、彼獣を見て驚き怪しまん。 (Abyssos g12)

The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go into perdition. And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, [they] whose name hath not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast, how that he was, and is not, and shall come. (Abyssos g12)

9 是に於てか知識と穎敏とを要す。七の頭は婦の坐せる七の山なり、又七人の國王なり。

Here is the mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth:

10 五人は既に倒れて一人は存し、尚一人は未來らず、來りたらん時は暫し留るべし。

and they are seven kings; the five are fallen, the one is, the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a little while.

11 曾て有りしも今は在らざる獣は其第八番にして七人より出でて亡に至るなり。

And the beast that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is of the seven; and he goeth into perdition.

12 又汝の見し十の角は十人の國王にして、彼等は未國を得ざれども、獣の後に一時王の如き権威を受くべく、

And the ten horns that thou sawest are ten kings, who have received no kingdom as yet; but they receive authority as kings, with the beast, for one hour.

13 彼等は同一の計略を為し、己が能力と権威とを獣に付さん。

These have one mind, and they give their power and authority unto the beast.

14 彼等は羔と戰ふべく、而して羔は彼等に勝ち給ふべし。彼は諸主の主、諸王の王に在して、之と共に居る人々は、召されし者、選まれし者、忠實なる者なればなり、と。

These shall war against the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings; and they [also shall overcome] that are with him, called and chosen and faithful.

15 天使又我に謂ひけるは、淫婦の坐せる處に汝が見し水は、是諸國、諸民、諸語なり。

And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

16 又獣に於て汝が見し十の角は、遂に彼淫婦を憎み、之を悩まし且裸ならしめ、其肉を喰ひ、火を以て彼を焼盡すべし。

And the ten horns which thou sawest, and the beast, these shall hate the harlot, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her utterly with fire.

17 蓋神彼等に御旨を行ふ事と、同一の計略を為して神の御言悉く成就するまで、己が國を獣に付す事とを志さしめ給ひしなり。

For God did put in their hearts to do his mind, and to come to one mind, and to give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.

18 又汝が見し婦は、地上の國王を司る大都會なり、と。

And the woman whom thou sawest is the great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.