Revelation 17
1 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,
第五項 大いなるバビロネの處罰 然て七の器を持てる七の天使の一來りて我に謂ひけるは、來れ、我汝に示すに、多くの水の上に坐せる大淫婦の宣告を以てせん。
2 with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who dwell in the earth were made drunk with the wine of her sexual immorality."
地上の諸國王之と姦淫を行ひ、地に住める人々其淫亂の酒に酔ひたりき、と。
3 He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored animal, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.
斯て我氣を奪はれ、彼天使に荒野に携へられて見たるに、緋色の獣に乗りたる一人の婦あり、獣は渾身冒涜の名を以て覆はれ、七の頭と十の角あり。
4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality.
婦は緋色、紫色の服を着し、金、寳石、眞珠を以て身を飾り、手には憎むべきものと其淫亂の穢とに満てる金の器あり。
5 And on her forehead a name was written, "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."
其額には書記されたる名あり、曰く「奥義、大いなるバビロネ、地上の淫婦等と憎むべきこととの母」と。
6 I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.
此婦を見るに、諸聖人の血及びイエズスの殉教者等の血に酔へる者なれば、我之を見て大いに驚けり。
7 The angel said to me, "Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.
天使我に謂ひけるは、何の故に驚くぞ、我此婦の奥義と、七の頭、十の角ありて之を乗せたる獣の奥義とを汝に語らん。
8 The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and is going to destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, but is to come. (Abyssos g12)
汝の見し獣は曾て有りしも今在らず、後には底なき淵より上りて亡に至らん。地上に住みて世の開闢より以後生命の名簿に名を記されざる人々は、曾て有りしも今は在らずして後に顕るべき、彼獣を見て驚き怪しまん。 (Abyssos g12)
9 Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.
是に於てか知識と穎敏とを要す。七の頭は婦の坐せる七の山なり、又七人の國王なり。
10 They are seven kings. Five have fallen, the one is, the other has not yet come. When he comes, he must continue a little while.
五人は既に倒れて一人は存し、尚一人は未來らず、來りたらん時は暫し留るべし。
11 The beast that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is of the seven; and he goes to destruction.
曾て有りしも今は在らざる獣は其第八番にして七人より出でて亡に至るなり。
12 The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority as kings, with the beast, for one hour.
又汝の見し十の角は十人の國王にして、彼等は未國を得ざれども、獣の後に一時王の如き権威を受くべく、
13 These have one mind, and they give their power and authority to the beast.
彼等は同一の計略を為し、己が能力と権威とを獣に付さん。
14 These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings. They also will overcome who are with him, called and chosen and faithful."
彼等は羔と戰ふべく、而して羔は彼等に勝ち給ふべし。彼は諸主の主、諸王の王に在して、之と共に居る人々は、召されし者、選まれし者、忠實なる者なればなり、と。
15 He said to me, "The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.
天使又我に謂ひけるは、淫婦の坐せる處に汝が見し水は、是諸國、諸民、諸語なり。
16 The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, and will make her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.
又獣に於て汝が見し十の角は、遂に彼淫婦を憎み、之を悩まし且裸ならしめ、其肉を喰ひ、火を以て彼を焼盡すべし。
17 For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, and to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.
蓋神彼等に御旨を行ふ事と、同一の計略を為して神の御言悉く成就するまで、己が國を獣に付す事とを志さしめ給ひしなり。
18 The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth."
又汝が見し婦は、地上の國王を司る大都會なり、と。
