Acts 17
1 And having passed through Amphipolis, and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where the synagogue of the Jews was,
かくてアムピポリス及びアポロニヤを經てテサロニケに到る。此處にユダヤ人の會堂ありたれば、
2 and according to the custom of Paul, he went in to them, and for three Sabbaths he was reasoning with them from the Writings,
パウロは例のごとく彼らの中に入り、三つの安息 日にわたり、聖書に基きて論じ、かつ解き明して、
3 opening and alleging that it was necessary [for] the Christ to suffer, and to rise again out of the dead, and that “this is the Christ—Jesus whom I proclaim to you.”
キリストの必ず苦難をうけ、死人の中より甦へるべきことを述べ『わが汝らに傳ふる此のイエスはキリストなり』と證せり。
4 And certain of them believed, and attached themselves to Paul and to Silas, also a great multitude of the worshiping Greeks, also not a few of the principal women.
その中のある人々および敬虔なる數多のギリシヤ人、また多くの重立ちたる女も信じてパウロとシラスとに從へり。
5 And the Jews, having been moved with envy, and having taken to themselves certain evil men of the agitators, and having made a crowd, were setting the city in an uproar; having also assailed the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring [them] to the populace,
ここにユダヤ人ら嫉を起して市の無頼者をかたらひ、群衆を集めて町を騷がし、又ふたりを集民の前に曳き出さんとしてヤソンの家を圍みしが、
6 and having not found them, they drew Jason and certain brothers to the city rulers, calling aloud, “These, having put the world in commotion, are also present here,
見出さざれば、ヤソンと數人の兄弟とを町 司たちの前に曳ききたり、呼はりて言ふ『天下を顛覆したる彼の者ども此處にまで來れるを、
7 whom Jason has received; and all these do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying another to be king—Jesus.”
ヤソン迎へ入れたり。この曹輩は皆カイザルの詔勅にそむき、他にイエスと云ふ王ありと言ふ』
8 And they troubled the multitude and the city rulers, hearing these things,
之をききて群衆と町 司たちと心をさわがし、
9 and having taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
保證を取りてヤソンと他の人々とを釋せり。
10 And the brothers immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went into the synagogue of the Jews;
兄弟たち直ちに夜の間にパウロとシラスとをベレヤに送りいだす。二人は彼處につきてユダヤ人の會堂にいたる。
11 and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Writings every day [to see] whether those things were so;
此處の人々はテサロニケに居る人よりも善良にして、心より御言をうけ、この事 正しく然るか然らぬか、日々 聖書をしらぶ。
12 therefore, many of them, indeed, believed, and not a few of the honorable Greek women and men.
この故にその中の多くのもの信じたり、又ギリシヤの貴女、男子にして信じたる者も少からざりき。
13 And when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that also in Berea was the word of God declared by Paul, they came there also, agitating the multitudes;
然るにテサロニケのユダヤ人ら、パウロがベレヤにも神の言を傳ふることを聞きたれば、此處にも來りて群衆を動かし、かつ騷がしたり。
14 and then immediately the brothers sent forth Paul, to go on as it were to the sea, but both Silas and Timotheus were remaining there.
ここに兄弟たち直ちにパウロを送り出して海邊に往かしめ、シラスとテモテとは尚ベレヤに留れり。
15 And those conducting Paul, brought him to Athens, and having received a command to Silas and Timotheus that with all speed they may come to him, they departed;
パウロを導ける人々はアテネまで伴ひ往き、パウロよりシラスとテモテとに、疾く我に來れとの命を受けて立ち去れり。
16 and Paul waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, beholding the city wholly given to idolatry,
パウロ、アテネにて彼らを待ちをる間に、町に偶像の滿ちたるを見て、その心に憤慨を懷く。
17 therefore, indeed, he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the worshiping persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met with him.
されば會堂にてはユダヤ人および敬虔なる人々と論じ、市場にては日々 逢ふところの者と論じたり。
18 And certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were meeting together to see him, and some were saying, “What would this seed picker wish to say?” And others, “He seems to be an announcer of strange demons”; because he proclaimed to them Jesus and the resurrection as good news,
斯てエピクロス派ならびにストア派の哲學者 數人これと論じあひ、或 者らは言ふ『この囀る者なにを言はんとするか』或 者らは言ふ『かれは異なる神々を傳ふる者の如し』是はパウロがイエスと復活とを宣べたる故なり。
19 having also taken him, they brought [him] to the Areopagus, saying, “Are we able to know what this new teaching [is] that is spoken by you,
遂にパウロをアレオパゴスに連れ往きて言ふ『なんぢが語るこの新しき教の如何なるものなるを、我ら知り得べきか。
20 for you bring certain strange things to our ears? We resolve, then, to know what these things would wish to be”;
なんぢ異なる事を我らの耳に入るるが故に、我らその何事たるを知らんと思ふなり』
21 and all Athenians, and the strangers sojourning, for nothing else were at leisure but to say something, and to hear some newer thing.
アテネ人も、彼處に住む旅人も、皆ただ新しき事を或は語り、或は聞きてのみ日を送りゐたり。
22 And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, “Men, Athenians, in all things I perceive you as over-religious;
パウロ、アレオパゴスの中に立ちて言ふ『アテネ人よ、我すべての事に就きて汝らが神々を敬ふ心の篤きを見る。
23 for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I also found an altar on which had been inscribed: To God—unknown; whom, therefore—not knowing—you worship, this One I announce to you.
われ汝らが拜むものを見つつ道を過ぐるほどに「知らざる神に」と記したる一つの祭壇を見出したり。然れば我なんぢらが知らずして拜む所のものを汝らに示さん。
24 God, who made the world, and all things in it, this One, being Lord of Heaven and of earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,
世界とその中のあらゆる物とを造り給ひし神は、天 地の主にましませば、手にて造れる宮に住み給はず。
25 neither is He served by the hands of men—needing anything, He giving life to all, and breath, and all things;
みづから凡ての人に生命と息と萬の物とを與へ給へば、物に乏しき所あるが如く、人の手にて事ふることを要し給はず。
26 He also made every nation of man of one blood, to dwell on all the face of the earth—having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings—
一人よりして諸種の國人を造りいだし、之を地の全面に住ましめ、時期の限と住居の界とを定め給へり。
27 to seek the LORD, if perhaps they felt after Him and found, though, indeed, He is not far from each one of us,
これ人をして神を尋ねしめ、或は探りて見 出す事あらしめん爲なり。されど神は我等おのおのを離れ給ふこと遠からず、
28 for in Him we live, and move, and are; as certain of your poets have also said: For we are also His offspring.
我らは神の中に生き、動きまた在るなり。汝らの詩人の中の或 者どもも「我らは又その裔なり」と云へる如し。
29 Being, therefore, offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold, or silver, or stone, [an] engraving of art and imagination of man;
かく神の裔なれば、神を金・銀・石など人の工と思考とにて刻める物と等しく思ふべきにあらず。
30 therefore indeed God, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now commands all men everywhere to convert,
神はかかる無知の時代を見 過しにし給ひしが、今は何處にても凡ての人に悔改むべきことを告げたまふ。
31 because He set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a Man whom He ordained, having given assurance to all, having raised Him out of the dead.”
曩に立て給ひし一人によりて、義をもて世界を審かんために日をさだめ、彼を死人の中より甦へらせて保證を萬人に與へ給へり』
32 And having heard of a resurrection of the dead, some, indeed, were mocking, but others said, “We will hear you again concerning this”;
人々、死人の復活をききて、或 者は嘲笑ひしが、或 者は『われら復この事を汝に聞かん』と言へり。
33 and so Paul went forth from the midst of them,
ここにパウロ人々のなかを出で去る。
34 and certain men having cleaved to him, believed, among whom [is] also Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman, by name Damaris, and others with them.
されど彼に附隨ひて信じたるもの數人あり。其の中にアレオパゴスの裁判人デオヌシオ及びダマリスと名づくる女あり、尚その他にもありき。
