コリント人への手紙第一 2
1 兄弟よ、われ曩に汝らに到りしとき、神の證を傳ふるに言と智慧との優れたるを用ひざりき。
Brothers and sisters, when I came to you I didn't try to impress you with wonderful words or great wisdom when I told you what God had to say to you.
2 イエス・キリスト及びその十字架に釘けられ給ひし事のほかは、汝らの中にありて何をも知るまじと心を定めたればなり。
I decided that while I was with you I didn't want to concentrate on anything except Jesus Christ, and that he was crucified.
3 我なんぢらと偕に居りし時に、弱くかつ懼れ、甚く戰けり。
I came to you in weakness, fearful and trembling.
4 わが談話も、宣教も、智慧の美しき言によらずして、御靈と能力との證明によりたり。
I didn't speak to you with persuasive words of wisdom to convince you. I just explained it all to you through the evidence and power of the Spirit.
5 これ汝らの信仰の、人の智慧によらず、神の能力に頼らん爲なり。
That way your trust in God wouldn't rely on human wisdom but on the power of God.
However, we do use words of wisdom when we speak to those who are spiritually mature, but this isn't wisdom that comes from this world, or from the rulers of this world who soon fade from the scene. (aiōn g165)
On the contrary we explain God's wisdom in terms of a revealed mystery that was previously hidden which God planned for our glory before the creation of the worlds. (aiōn g165)
None of the rulers of this world understood anything about this—for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. (aiōn g165)
9 録して『神のおのれを愛する者のために備へ給ひし事は、眼いまだ見ず、耳いまだ聞かず、人の心いまだ思はざりし所なり』と有るが如し。
But as Scripture says, “No one has ever seen, and no one has ever heard, and no one has ever imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.”
10 されど我らには神これを御靈によりて顯し給へり。御靈はすべての事を究め、神の深き所まで究むればなり。
But God has revealed this to us through the Spirit, because the Spirit delves into the depths of God.
11 それ人のことは己が中にある靈のほかに誰か知る人あらん、斯くのごとく神のことは神の御靈のほかに知る者なし。
Who knows anyone's thoughts except the actual person? In the same way no one knows God's thoughts except the Spirit of God.
12 我らの受けし靈は世の靈にあらず、神より出づる靈なり、是われらに神の賜ひしものを知らんためなり。
For we have received the Spirit from God, not the spirit of this world, so that we could understand what God so generously gave us.
13 又われら之を語るに人の智慧の教ふる言を用ひず、御靈の教ふる言を用ふ、即ち靈の事に靈の言を當つるなり。
That's what we speak about—not using words taught by human wisdom, but what the Spirit teaches. We explain what is spiritual using spiritual terms.
14 性來のままなる人は神の御靈のことを受けず、彼には愚なる者と見ゆればなり。また之を悟ること能はず、御靈のことは靈によりて辨ふべき者なるが故なり。
Of course people who are not spiritual don't accept what comes from God's Spirit. It's just foolish nonsense to them, and they can't understand it, because what is spiritual has to be properly examined.
15 されど靈に屬する者は、すべての事をわきまふ、而して己は人に辨へらるる事なし。
People who are spiritual investigate everything, but are not placed under investigation themselves.
16 誰か主の心を知りて主を教ふる者あらんや。然れど我らはキリストの心を有てり。
For “who understands the Lord's mind, and would think to instruct him?” But we do have Christ's mind!
