テトスへの手紙 1
1 神の僕にしてイエズス、キリストの使徒たるパウロ、共通の信仰によりて我實子たるチトに[書簡を贈る]。我が使徒たるは、神に選まれたる人々の信仰に應じ、又人を敬虔に導きて、
From Paul, a servant of God, and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, charged to strengthen the faith of God’s Chosen People, and their knowledge of that Truth which makes for godliness
and is based on the hope of Immortal Life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began, (aiōnios g166)
3 時至りて御言を顕すに宣教を以てし給ひ、其宣教は我救主にて在す神の命によりて我に託せられたるなり。
and has revealed at his own time in his Message, with the proclamation of which I was entrusted by the command of God our Saviour.
4 願はくは父にて在す神及び我救主キリスト、イエズスより恩寵と平安とを賜はらんことを。
To Titus, my true Child in our one Faith: May God, the Father, and Christ Jesus, our Saviour, bless you and give you peace.
5 第一編 善き聖職者の選択に関する教訓 我が汝をクレタ[島]に置きしは、尚缺けたる所を整へ、且我が汝に命ぜし如く町々に長老を立てしめん為なり、
My reason for leaving you in Crete was that you might put in order what had been left unsettled, and appoint Officers of the Church in the various towns, as I myself directed you.
6 即ち咎むべき所なく、一婦の夫にして、若子等あらば是も信徒にして、放蕩を以て訴へらるる事なく、順はざる事なき子等を有てる人たるべし。
They are to be men of irreproachable character, who are faithful husbands, whose children are Christians and have never been charged with dissolute conduct or have been unruly.
7 蓋監督は、神の家宰として咎むべき所なき人たるべし。即ち自慢せず、短氣ならず、酒を嗜まず、人を打たず、耻づべき利を求めず、
For a Presiding-Officer, as God’s steward, ought to be a man of irreproachable character; not self-willed or quick-tempered, nor addicted to drink or to brawling or to questionable money-making.
8 旅人を接待し、善を好み、怜悧にして義人たり、信心家にして節制家たり、
On the contrary, he should be hospitable, eager for the right, discreet, upright, a man of holy life and capable of self-restraint,
9 教によれる眞の談を固く執り、健全なる教によりて人を勧むることを得、反對を稱ふる人に答弁をするを得る人たるべし。
who holds doctrine that can be relied on as being in accordance with the accepted Teaching; so that he may be able to encourage others by sound teaching, as well as to refute our opponents.
10 蓋從はずして贅弁を弄し、以て人を惑はす者、殊に割禮の人々の中に多し。
There are, indeed, many unruly persons — great talkers who deceive themselves, principally converts from Judaism,
11 彼等は耻づべき利の為に、教ふべからざる事を教へ、全家をも覆すが故に、彼等をして閉口せしむるを要す。
whose mouths ought to be stopped; for they upset whole households by teaching what they ought not to teach, merely to make questionable gains.
12 彼等の中なる一人の預言者は言へり、「クレタ人は何時も虚言を吐きて、惡き獣、懶惰の腹なり」と。
It was a Cretan — one of their own teachers — who said: ‘Cretans are always liars, base brutes, and gluttonous idlers’; and his statement is true.
13 この證言は實なり、此故に汝、彼等をして信仰に健全ならしめん為に、鋭く之を譴責し、
Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they may be sound in the Faith,
14 ユデア教の寓言と、身を眞理に反くる人々の戒とに憑る事なからしめよ。
and may pay no attention to Jewish legends, or to the directions of those who turn their backs upon the Truth.
15 潔き人々には、物皆潔けれども、穢れたる人、不信の人には潔き物なく、其理性と良心と共に穢れたり。
Everything is pure to the pure-minded, but to those whose minds are polluted and who are unbelievers nothing is pure. Their minds and consciences are alike polluted.
16 彼等は自ら神を識り奉れりと宣言すれども、行に於ては之を棄てて實に憎むべきもの、反抗するもの、一切の善業に就きての廃物なり。
They profess to know God, but by their actions they disown him. They are degraded and self-willed; and, as far as anything good is concerned, they are utterly worthless.
