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 which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come here; I will show unto you the judgment of the great whore that sits 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 have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk 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。

So he carried me away in the spirit (pneuma) into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured 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 colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness 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 was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND 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 great admiration.

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 did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and 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 you saw was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. (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。

And here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.

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 there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he comes, he must continue a short space.

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, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goes 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 which you saw are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.

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 shall give their power and strength 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 make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are 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 says unto me, The waters which you saw, where the whore sits, are races and tribes, 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 you saw upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her 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 has put in their hearts to fulfill his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words (rhema) of God shall be fulfilled.

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 which you saw is that great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth.