preritāḥ 17
1 paulasīlau āmphipalyāpalloniyānagarābhyāṁ gatvā yatra yihūdīyānāṁ bhajanabhavanamekam āste tatra thiṣalanīkīnagara upasthitau|
Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
2 tadā paulaḥ svācārānusāreṇa teṣāṁ samīpaṁ gatvā viśrāmavāratraye taiḥ sārddhaṁ dharmmapustakīyakathāyā vicāraṁ kṛtavān|
Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
3 phalataḥ khrīṣṭena duḥkhabhogaḥ karttavyaḥ śmaśānadutthānañca karttavyaṁ yuṣmākaṁ sannidhau yasya yīśoḥ prastāvaṁ karomi sa īśvareṇābhiṣiktaḥ sa etāḥ kathāḥ prakāśya pramāṇaṁ datvā sthirīkṛtavān|
explaining and demonstrating that the Messiah had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Messiah."
4 tasmāt teṣāṁ katipayajanā anyadeśīyā bahavo bhaktalokā bahyaḥ pradhānanāryyaśca viśvasya paulasīlayoḥ paścādgāmino jātāḥ|
Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, as did a large number of the devout Greeks, and not a few of the prominent women.
5 kintu viśvāsahīnā yihūdīyalokā īrṣyayā paripūrṇāḥ santo haṭaṭsya katinayalampaṭalokān saṅginaḥ kṛtvā janatayā nagaramadhye mahākalahaṁ kṛtvā yāsono gṛham ākramya preritān dhṛtvā lokanivahasya samīpam ānetuṁ ceṣṭitavantaḥ|
But the Jews, being moved with jealousy, took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
6 teṣāmuddeśam aprāpya ca yāsonaṁ katipayān bhrātṛṁśca dhṛtvā nagarādhipatīnāṁ nikaṭamānīya proccaiḥ kathitavanto ye manuṣyā jagadudvāṭitavantaste 'trāpyupasthitāḥ santi,
When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
7 eṣa yāson ātithyaṁ kṛtvā tān gṛhītavān| yīśunāmaka eko rājastīti kathayantaste kaisarasyājñāviruddhaṁ karmma kurvvati|
whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus."
8 teṣāṁ kathāmimāṁ śrutvā lokanivaho nagarādhipatayaśca samudvignā abhavan|
The crowd and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.
9 tadā yāsonastadanyeṣāñca dhanadaṇḍaṁ gṛhītvā tān parityaktavantaḥ|
When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
10 tataḥ paraṁ bhrātṛgaṇo rajanyāṁ paulasīlau śīghraṁ birayānagaraṁ preṣitavān tau tatropasthāya yihūdīyānāṁ bhajanabhavanaṁ gatavantau|
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
11 tatrasthā lokāḥ thiṣalanīkīsthalokebhyo mahātmāna āsan yata itthaṁ bhavati na veti jñātuṁ dine dine dharmmagranthasyālocanāṁ kṛtvā svairaṁ kathām agṛhlan|
Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
12 tasmād aneke yihūdīyā anyadeśīyānāṁ mānyā striyaḥ puruṣāścāneke vyaśvasan|
Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.
13 kintu birayānagare pauleneśvarīyā kathā pracāryyata iti thiṣalanīkīsthā yihūdīyā jñātvā tatsthānamapyāgatya lokānāṁ kupravṛttim ajanayan|
But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, inciting and disturbing the crowds.
14 ataeva tasmāt sthānāt samudreṇa yāntīti darśayitvā bhrātaraḥ kṣipraṁ paulaṁ prāhiṇvan kintu sīlatīmathiyau tatra sthitavantau|
Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
15 tataḥ paraṁ paulasya mārgadarśakāstam āthīnīnagara upasthāpayan paścād yuvāṁ tūrṇam etat sthānaṁ āgamiṣyathaḥ sīlatīmathiyau pratīmām ājñāṁ prāpya te pratyāgatāḥ|
But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.
16 paula āthīnīnagare tāvapekṣya tiṣṭhan tannagaraṁ pratimābhiḥ paripūrṇaṁ dṛṣṭvā santaptahṛdayo 'bhavat|
Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
17 tataḥ sa bhajanabhavane yān yihūdīyān bhaktalokāṁśca haṭṭe ca yān apaśyat taiḥ saha pratidinaṁ vicāritavān|
So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.
18 kintvipikūrīyamatagrahiṇaḥ stoyikīyamatagrāhiṇaśca kiyanto janāstena sārddhaṁ vyavadanta| tatra kecid akathayan eṣa vācālaḥ kiṁ vaktum icchati? apare kecid eṣa janaḥ keṣāñcid videśīyadevānāṁ pracāraka ityanumīyate yataḥ sa yīśum utthitiñca pracārayat|
Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
19 te tam areyapāganāma vicārasthānam ānīya prāvocan idaṁ yannavīnaṁ mataṁ tvaṁ prācīkaśa idaṁ kīdṛśaṁ etad asmān śrāvaya;
They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?
20 yāmimām asambhavakathām asmākaṁ karṇagocarīkṛtavān asyā bhāvārthaḥ ka iti vayaṁ jñātum icchāmaḥ|
For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean."
21 tadāthīnīnivāsinastannagarapravāsinaśca kevalaṁ kasyāścana navīnakathāyāḥ śravaṇena pracāraṇena ca kālam ayāpayan|
Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
22 paulo'reyapāgasya madhye tiṣṭhan etāṁ kathāṁ pracāritavān, he āthīnīyalokā yūyaṁ sarvvathā devapūjāyām āsaktā ityaha pratyakṣaṁ paśyāmi|
Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
23 yataḥ paryyaṭanakāle yuṣmākaṁ pūjanīyāni paśyan ‘avijñāteśvarāya’ etallipiyuktāṁ yajñavedīmekāṁ dṛṣṭavān; ato na viditvā yaṁ pūjayadhve tasyaiva tatvaṁ yuṣmān prati pracārayāmi|
For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.
24 jagato jagatsthānāṁ sarvvavastūnāñca sraṣṭā ya īśvaraḥ sa svargapṛthivyorekādhipatiḥ san karanirmmitamandireṣu na nivasati;
The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,
25 sa eva sarvvebhyo jīvanaṁ prāṇān sarvvasāmagrīśca pradadāti; ataeva sa kasyāścit sāmagyrā abhāvaheto rmanuṣyāṇāṁ hastaiḥ sevito bhavatīti na|
neither is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.
26 sa bhūmaṇḍale nivāsārtham ekasmāt śoṇitāt sarvvān manuṣyān sṛṣṭvā teṣāṁ pūrvvanirūpitasamayaṁ vasatisīmāñca niracinot;
He made from one blood every nation of mankind to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,
27 tasmāt lokaiḥ kenāpi prakāreṇa mṛgayitvā parameśvarasya tatvaṁ prāptuṁ tasya gaveṣaṇaṁ karaṇīyam|
that they should seek God, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
28 kintu so'smākaṁ kasmāccidapi dūre tiṣṭhatīti nahi, vayaṁ tena niśvasanapraśvasanagamanāgamanaprāṇadhāraṇāni kurmmaḥ, punaśca yuṣmākameva katipayāḥ kavayaḥ kathayanti ‘tasya vaṁśā vayaṁ smo hi’ iti|
'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'
29 ataeva yadi vayam īśvarasya vaṁśā bhavāmastarhi manuṣyai rvidyayā kauśalena ca takṣitaṁ svarṇaṁ rūpyaṁ dṛṣad vaiteṣāmīśvaratvam asmābhi rna jñātavyaṁ|
Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by human art and design.
30 teṣāṁ pūrvvīyalokānām ajñānatāṁ pratīśvaro yadyapi nāvādhatta tathāpīdānīṁ sarvvatra sarvvān manaḥ parivarttayitum ājñāpayati,
The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
31 yataḥ svaniyuktena puruṣeṇa yadā sa pṛthivīsthānāṁ sarvvalokānāṁ vicāraṁ kariṣyati taddinaṁ nyarūpayat; tasya śmaśānotthāpanena tasmin sarvvebhyaḥ pramāṇaṁ prādāt|
because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to everyone by raising him from the dead."
32 tadā śmaśānād utthānasya kathāṁ śrutvā kecid upāhaman, kecidavadan enāṁ kathāṁ punarapi tvattaḥ śroṣyāmaḥ|
Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, "We want to hear you again concerning this."
33 tataḥ paulasteṣāṁ samīpāt prasthitavān|
Thus Paul went out from among them.
34 tathāpi kecillokāstena sārddhaṁ militvā vyaśvasan teṣāṁ madhye 'reyapāgīyadiyanusiyo dāmārīnāmā kācinnārī kiyanto narāścāsan|
But some people joined with him, and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
