ローマ人への手紙 9
1 第一款 イスラエル人排斥せられしも、神の約束は誠實にして其處置は正義完全なり 我はキリスト[の御前]に眞を言ひて僞らず、我良心聖霊と一致して我に證明す。
Truth, say I, in Christ, I utter no falsehood, —my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit, —
2 我に大いなる憂あり、我心に間断なき苦痛あり。
That I have great grief and incessant travail in my heart;
3 即ち我兄弟等の為には、我殆ど自らキリストに棄てられん事をすら望まんとす。彼等は肉身上の我親族なり、
For I could have wished to be accursed, even I myself, from the Christ, in behalf of my brethren my kinsmen according to the flesh; —
4 イスラエル人なり、神の子とせらるる事と、光榮と諸契約と律法と拝禮と約束とは彼等のものなり。
Who, indeed, are Israelites, whose are the sonship, and the glory, and the covenants, and the legislation, and the divine service, and the promises,
Whose are the fathers, and of whom is the Christ—according to the flesh—he who is over all, God, blessed unto the ages. Amen. (aiōn g165)
6 然れど神の御言は廃れりと云ふには非ず、蓋イスラエルより出でし人皆イスラエル人たるに非ず、
It is not, however, as though the word of God had failed; for, not all they who are of Israel, the same are Israel.
7 又アブラハムの裔たる人皆子たるに非ず、但「イザアクより出づる者は汝の裔と呼ばれん」とあり。
Neither, because they are seed of Abraham, are all children, —but, In Isaac, shall there be called unto thee a seed.
8 即ち肉の子たる人々が神の子たるに非ずして、約束の子たる人々こそ其裔とせらるるなれ。
That is—not the children of the flesh, the same are children of God; but, the children of the promise, are reckoned as a seed.
9 蓋約束の言は、「此時至らば我來らん、而して[妻]サラには一子あるべし」と是なり。
For, of promise, is this word—According to this season, will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
10 加之レベッカも亦一人の我先祖イザアクによりて[双児を]懐胎せしに、
And, not only so, but, when, Rebekah also, was with child, of one—Isaac our father, —
11 未だ生れず又何等の善惡を為さざる中に、神の規定は選抜に從ひて存する為に、
They, in fact, not being yet born, nor having practised anything good or bad, —in order that the purpose of God by way of election might stand, —not by works but by him that was calling,
12 行によらず召によりて「兄は弟に事へん」と云はれたり。
It was said unto her—The elder, shall serve the younger;
13 録して「我イザアクを愛しエザウを憎めり」とあるが如し。
Even as it is written—Jacob, have I loved, but, Esau, have I hated.
14 然れば我等何をか云ふべき、神に於て不義ありや、然らず、
What, then, shall we say? Is there injustice with God? Far be it!
15 其はモイゼに曰く「我が敢て憫まん人を憫み、敢て慈悲を施さん人に慈悲を施さん」と。
For, unto Moses, he saith—I will have mercy upon whomsoever I can have mercy, and I will have compassion upon whomsoever I can have compassion.
16 然れば欲する人にも走る人にも由らずして、憫み給ふ神に由るなり。
Hence, then, it is nor of him that wisheth nor of him that runneth, but of the mercy-shewing God.
17 蓋聖書ファラオンに曰らく「我が汝を立てしは、殊に汝に於て我が権能を顕し、我名を全世界に傳へられん為なり」と。
For the Scripture saith unto Pharaoh—Unto this end, have I raised thee up, that I may thus shew in thee my power, and that I may declare my name in all the earth.
18 然れば神は思召の人を憫み、思召の人を固くし給ふなり。
Hence, then, —on whom he pleaseth, he hath mercy, and, whom he pleaseth, he doth harden.
19 是によりて汝或は言はん、然らば何ぞ尚咎め給ふや、誰か其思召に抵抗せん、と。
Thou wilt say to me, then—Why longer findeth he fault? For, his purpose, who hath withstood?
20 嗟人よ、汝は誰なれば神に言逆らふぞ。土器は己を造りたる人に向ひて、何故に我を斯く造りしぞと言ふか。
O man! Who, nevertheless, art, thou, that art answering again unto God? Shall the thing formed say unto him that formed it—Why didst thou make me thus?
21 陶師は同じ塊を以て、一の器を尊き用の為、一の器を賤しき用の為に造るの権あるに非ずや。
Or hath not the potter a right over the clay—out of the same lump, to make some, indeed, into a vessel for honour, and some for dishonour?
22 神もし怒を顕し給ひ、己が権能を知らしめんとして、亡ぶべく備はりたる器を大いなる忍耐を以て忍び給ひしに、
And, if God—wishing to shew his anger and to make known his power—bare, in much patience, with vessels of anger already fitted for destruction,
23 光榮あるべく豫備し給ひし恤の器に對して、己が光榮の豊なるを示さんとし給はば如何、
In order that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy which he prepared beforehand for glory, —
24 恤の器として啻にユデア人の中より耳ならず、異邦人の中より我等を召し給ひしなり。
Whom he also called, even us, not only from among Jews, but also from among the nations, [what then?]
25 是オゼア書に、「我わが民たらざりし者を我民と呼び、愛せられざりし者を愛せらるる者と（呼び、恤を得ざりし者を恤を得る者と）呼ばん、」
As also in Hosea he saith—I will call the not-my-people, My people, and the not-beloved, beloved,
26 又「彼等既に、汝等は我民に非ず、と謂はれし其處に於て、活ける神の子等と稱へらるることあらん」と曰ひしが如し。
And it shall be—in the place where it was said [to them]—not my people are, ye! there, shall they be called—Sons of a Living God.
27 イザヤもイスラエルに就きて呼はりけるは、「イスラエルの子等の數、海の砂の如くなるも、殘る者のみ救はれん。
Isaiah, moreover, exclaimeth over Israel—Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant, shall be saved;
28 蓋主は御言を速に地上に行ひ給ふべければ、義を以て之を速に全うし給ふべし」と。
For, a complete and concise account, will the Lord make upon the earth.
29 又イザヤが預言して、「萬軍の主若我等に種を遺し給はざりせば、我等はソドマの如く成り、ゴモラに似たるものと成りしならん」、と云ひしが如し。
And, even as Isaiah hath before said, —If, the Lord of hosts, had not left us a seed, as Sodom, had we become, and, as Gomorrha, had we been made like.
30 第二款 イスラエル人の排斥せらるるは、其過に由れり 然らば我等何をか言ふべき。義を追求せざりし異邦人等は義を執へたり、但是は信仰に由れる義なり。
What, then, shall we say? That, they of the nations, who were not in pursuit of righteousness, have laid hold of righteousness, —a righteousness, however, which is by faith;
31 却てイスラエルは義の法を追求しつつも、義の法に至らざりき。
Whereas, Israel, though in pursuit of a law of righteousness, unto a law, have not attained.
32 是何の故ぞ、彼等は信仰に由らずして業に由るが如くにしたればなり。即ち躓く石に突當れるなり、
Wherefore? Because, not by faith but as by works, [have they sought it]: they have stumbled at the stone of stumbling,
33 録して、「看よ、我シオンに於て躓く石、突當る岩を置く、誰にもあれ之を信ずる人は、辱めらるる者なからん」と、あるが如し。
Even as it is written—Lo! I lay in Zion, a stone to strike against and a rock to stumble over, and, he that resteth faith thereupon, shall not be put to shame.
