ローマ人への手紙 11
1 第三款 イスラエル人に取りての大いなる慰 然らば我は言はん、神は其民を棄て給ひしかと、然らず、其は我もイスラエル人にして、アブラハムの裔、ベンヤミンの族なればなり。
I say then, Hath God cast off his people? God forbid! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 神は豫知し給ひし己の民を棄て給はざりしなり。汝等エリアに就きて聖書の曰へる事を知らざるか、即ち彼イスラエル人を神に訟へて言へらく、
God hath not cast off his people, whom He foreknew. Do ye not know what the scripture saith of Elias? how he complains to God against Israel,
3 「主よ、彼等は主の預言者等を殺し、悉く主の祭壇を毀てり、然て我一人殘れるに、尚我命を求めんとするなり」と。
saying, "Lord, they have slain thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life."
4 而して神の御答に何と曰へるぞ、「我は己の為に、バアルの前に跪かざる七千の男子を殘したるなり」と。
But what saith the oracle of God to him? "I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal."
5 斯の如く、今の時も亦恩寵の撰に由りて殘れる者は救はれたり。
And so in the present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6 恩寵に由れば業に由るに非ず、然らざれば恩寵は最早恩寵に非ざるべし。
And if by grace, it is no more of works: for then grace is no longer grace. But if of works, it is no more grace: for then work is no longer work.
7 然らば何ぞや、イスラエル人は其求め居たりし所を得ず、撰まれたる人は之を得て、他の人は頑固になれり。
What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he sought: but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded,
8 録して、「神は彼等に茫然たる精神、見得べからざる目、聞得べからざる耳を賜ひて今日に至る」、とあるが如し。
(according as it is written, God hath given them a spirit of slumber, that their eyes could not see and their ears could not hear, ) even unto this day.
9 ダヴィド又曰く「願はくは彼等の食卓、網となり、罠となり、躓くものとなり、報となれかし、
And David saith, Let their table become a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-block, and a recompence unto them.
10 其目は眩みて見えざらしめ、其背は何時も屈ましめ給へ」、と。
Let their eyes be darkened that they may not see, and always bow down their back.
11 然れば我は言はん、彼等の躓きしは倒れん為なるかと、然らず、却て彼等を妬ましむる様、其堕落によりて、救は異邦人の上に來れり。
Say I then, Have they stumbled, that they should fall irrecoverably? God forbid! but this I say, that by their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles to excite them to emulation.
12 若彼等の堕落が世の富となり、其減少は異邦人の富とならば、况や彼等の全數をや。
Now if their fall be the riches of the world, and their diminution be the riches of the Gentiles, how much more will their fulness be?
13 蓋我、汝等異邦人に謂はん、我異邦人の使徒たる間は、我が[聖]役に榮誉を來さん。
For I speak to you Gentiles: inasmuch indeed as I am the apostle of the Gentiles,
14 是如何にもして、我骨肉たる者を刺激して之を励まし、其幾何かを救はん為なり。
I extol my office, that if possible I may excite to emulation my brethren according to the flesh, and may save some of them:
15 蓋彼等の排斥が世の和睦とならば、其採用は豈死より再生するに同じからざらんや。
for if the rejecting of them be the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving them again be but life from the dead?
16 若麪の初穂聖ならば全體も然あるべく、根聖ならば枝も然あるべし。
Now if the first-fruits be holy, so is the whole heap: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17 假令幾何かの枝折られて、野生の橄欖たりし汝之に接がれ、橄欖の根と液汁とを共にするものとなりたりとも、
But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou a wild-olive wert grafted in among them, and art made a partaker together with them of the root and fatness of the olive; boast not against the branches:
18 枝に向ひて誇ること勿れ、誇らんとするも、汝が根を保つに非ずして根こそ汝を保つなれ。
and if thou boastest, remember thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19 汝或は言はん、枝の折られしは我が接がれん為なりと。
Wilt thou say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in?
20 諾し、彼等は其不信仰に由りて折られしに、汝は信仰に由りて立てるなり。然れど驕ること勿れ、却て懼れよ。
Well; they were broken off for their infidelity, and thou standest by faith: therefore be not high-minded but fear.
21 蓋神は原樹の枝を惜み給はざりしなれば、恐くは汝をも惜み給はざるべし。
For if God spared not the natural branches, neither would He spare thee.
22 然れば神の慈愛と厳格とを見よ、倒れし人々に對しては惟厳格、汝に對しては惟慈愛、但是汝が其慈愛に止ればのみ、然らずんば汝も取除かるべし。
Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: towards them that fell, severity; but towards thee, goodness; if thou continue in his goodness: for else thou also shalt be cut off.
23 彼等も若不信仰に止らずば接がるるならん、其は神は再び之を接ぐことを得給へばなり。
And they, if they do not continue in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able again to graft them in.
24 汝は生來野生なる橄欖より切取られ、其本性に反して好き橄欖に接がれたれば、况や本性のものが原の橄欖に接がるるをや。
For if thou wert cut out of the wild olive, which was natural to thee, and contrary to nature were grafted into a good olive; how much more shall these who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive-tree?
25 兄弟等よ、自ら敏しとする事なからん為に、我は汝等が此奥義を知らざるを好まず、即ちイスラエルの幾部分の頑固になれるは、異邦人全體の入來るまでなり。
For I would not have you, brethren, to be ignorant of this mystery, (least ye should be wise in your own eyes) that blindness in part is befallen Israel, till the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
26 斯てイスラエルは挙りて救はるるに至るべし、録して、「救ふ者シオンに來り、ヤコブより不敬を去らしめん。
And so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written, "The deliverer shall come out of Sion, and shall turn away impiety from Jacob:
27 我彼等の罪を取除きたらん時、彼等と結ぶべき約束は是なり」、とあるが如し。
and this is my covenant with them, when I take away their sins."
28 福音に就きては、彼等汝等の為に敵なれども、選抜に就きては其祖先の為に至愛の者なり、
As to the gospel indeed they are enemies on your account, but as to the election they are beloved on account of the fathers.
29 其は神の賜と召とは、取消さるる事なければなり。
For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
30 斯て汝等も原神に從はざりしに、今や彼等の不從順に由りて慈悲を蒙りし如く、
For as ye were heretofore disobedient to God, but have now obtained mercy in their disobedience:
31 今彼等の從はざるも亦汝等の[蒙りし]慈悲に由りて己も慈悲を蒙らん為なり。
so these also in your mercy have now been disobedient, that they themselves might be the objects of mercy.
For God hath included them all in the charge of disobedience, that He might have mercy upon all. (eleēsē g1653)
33 嗚呼高大なる哉、神の富と智恵と知識と。其判定の覚り難さよ、其道の極め難さよ。
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgements, and his ways not to be traced out!
34 誰か主の御心を知り、誰か之と共に議りたるぞ。
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been his counsellor?
35 誰か先之に與へて、其報を得ん者ぞ。
Or who hath first given to Him? and it shall be returned.
