Romans 11
1 I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
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。
2 God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Or do not you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:
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、
3 “Lord, they have killed your prophets. They have broken down your altars. I am left alone, and they seek my life.”
「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。
4 But how does God answer him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
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。
5 Even so too at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
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。
6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
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。
7 What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he did not obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
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。
8 According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”
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。
9 David says, “Let their table be made a snare, a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.
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、
10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Always keep their backs bent.”
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。
11 I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
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。
12 Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!
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。
13 For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry,
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。
14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
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。
15 For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?
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。
16 If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
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。
17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree,
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、
18 do not boast over the branches. But if you boast, remember that it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.
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。
19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.”
汝或は言はん、枝の折られしは我が接がれん為なりと。
20 True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear;
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。
21 for if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
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。
22 See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
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。
23 They also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
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。
24 For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
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。
25 For I do not desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you will not be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
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。
26 and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, “There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
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。
27 This is my covenant with them, when I will take away their sins.”
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。
28 Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.
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、
29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
其は神の賜と召とは、取消さるる事なければなり。
30 For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,
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、
31 even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy.
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。
是衆人を憫み給はん為に、神が之を不從順に籠め給へるなり。 (eleēsē g1653)
33 Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
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。
34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”
誰か主の御心を知り、誰か之と共に議りたるぞ。
35 “Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?”
誰か先之に與へて、其報を得ん者ぞ。
