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 one of the seven messengers who had the seven bowls came, and spake with me, saying—Hither! I will point out to thee the judgment of the great harlot, who 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 lewdness, —and they who were dwelling upon the earth were made drunk with the wine of her lewdness.
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 into a desert, in spirit. And I saw a woman, sitting upon a scarlet wild-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 with purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls, —having a cup of gold in her hand, full of abominations and the impurities of her lewdness;
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, a secret: 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, drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And I was astonished, when I beheld her, with great astonishment.
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 messenger said unto me—Wherefore wast thou astonished? I, will tell thee the secret of the woman, and of the wild-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 wild-beast which thou sawest, was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss, and into, destruction, goeth away. And they who are dwelling upon the earth whose name is not written upon the book of life from the foundation of the world, will be astonished, when they see the wild-beast, because it was, and is not, and shall be present. (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, whereupon 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, have fallen, the one, is, the other, hath not yet come; and, whensoever he shall come, a little while, must he remain,
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 wild-beast which was and is not. And he, is an eighth, and is, of the seven, —and, into destruction, goeth away.
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 thou sawest, are, ten kings, —who, indeed, have not received, sovereignty, as yet, but, authority, as kings, for one hour, shall receive, with the wild-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, their power and authority, unto the wild-beast, they give.
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, with the Lamb, will make war; and, the Lamb, will overcome them, because he is, Lord of lords, and King of kings, —and, they who 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 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 wild-beast, these, shall hate the harlot, and, desolate, shall make her, and naked, and, her flesh, shall they eat, and, herself, shall they burn up 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, hath put into their hearts, to do his mind, and to do one mind, —and to give their sovereignty unto the wild-beast, until the words of God shall be completed.
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 hath sovereignty over the kings of the earth.
