コリント人への手紙第二 10
1 汝らに對し面前にては謙だり、離れゐては勇ましき我パウロ、自らキリストの柔和と寛容とをもて汝らに勸む。
Moreover, I, Paul, myself, exhort you, through the meekness and considerateness of the Christ, —I who, to look upon, indeed, am lowly toward you, but, absent, am bold towards you; —
2 我らを肉に從ひて歩むごとく思ふ者あれば、斯かる者に對しては雄々しくせんと思へど、願ふ所は我が汝らに逢ふとき斯く勇ましくせざらん事なり。
I entreat, however, that, when present, I may not be bold with the assurance wherewith I think to be daring against some who account of us as though, according to flesh, we were walking, —
3 我らは肉にありて歩めども、肉に從ひて戰はず。
For, though, in flesh, we walk, not, according to flesh, do we war, —
4 それ我らの戰爭の武器は肉に屬するにあらず、神の前には城砦を破るほどの能力あり、我等はもろもろの論説を破り、
For, the weapons of our warfare, are not fleshly, but mighty, by God, unto a pulling down of strongholds, —
5 神の示教に逆ひて建てたる凡ての櫓を毀ち、凡ての念を虜にしてキリストに服はしむ。
When we pull down, calculations, and every height that uplifteth itself against the knowledge of God, and when we bring into captivity every thought unto the obedience of the Christ,
6 且なんぢらの從順の全くならん時、すべての不 從順を罰せんと覺悟せり。
And when we hold ourselves, in readiness, to avenge all disobedience, as soon as your obedience shall be fulfilled!
7 汝らは外貌のみを見る、若し人みづからキリストに屬する者と信ぜば、己がキリストに屬する如く、我らも亦キリストに屬する者なることを更に考ふべし。
The things that lie on the surface, ye are looking at: —if anyone hath come to trust in himself that he is, Christ’s, this, let him reckon, again, with himself—that, even as, he, is Christ’s, so, also are, we.
8 假令われ汝らを破る爲ならずして建つる爲に、主が我らに賜ひたる權威につきて誇ること稍 過ぐとも恥とはならじ。
Yea, if, somewhat more abundantly, I should boast concerning our authority—which the Lord hath given for building up and not for pulling you down, I shall not be put to shame, —
9 われ書をもて汝らを嚇すと思はざれ。
That I may not seem as though I would be terrifying you through means of my letters;
10 彼らは言ふ『その書は重くかつ強し、その逢ふときの容貌は弱く、言は鄙し』と。
Because, The letters, it is true (saith one), are weighty and strong, but, the presence of the body, is weak, and, the discourse, contemptible; —
11 斯くのごとき人は思ふべし。我らが離れをる時おくる書の言のごとく、逢ふときの行爲も亦 然るを。
This, let such a one reckon—that, what we are, in our word, through means of letters, being absent, such, also, being present, are we, in our deed.
12 我らは己を譽むる人と敢へて竝び、また較ぶる事をせず、彼らは己によりて己を度り、己をもて己に較ぶれば智なき者なり。
For we dare not class or compare ourselves with some who do, themselves, commend; but, they, among themselves, measuring, themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without discernment!
13 我らは範圍を踰えて誇らず、神の我らに分ち賜ひたる範圍にしたがひて誇らん。その範圍は汝らに及べり。
We, however, not as to the things without measure, will boast ourselves, but, according to the measure of the limit which God apportioned unto us, as a measure—to reach as far as even you!
14 汝らに及ばぬ者のごとく範圍を踰えて身を延すに非ず、キリストの福音を傳へて汝らにまで到れるなり。
For, not as though we were not reaching unto you, are we over-stretching ourselves, for, as far as even you, were we beforehand in the glad-message of the Christ:
15 我らは己が範圍を踰えて他の人の勞を誇らず、唯なんぢらの信仰の彌増すにより、我らの範圍に循ひて汝らのうちに更に大ならんことを望む。
Not, as to the things without measure, boasting ourselves in other men’s toils, but having, hope—your faith, growing—among you, to be enlarged, according to our limit for something beyond, —
16 これ他の人の範圍に既に備りたるものを誇らず、汝らを踰えて外の處に福音を宣傳へん爲なり。
Unto the regions beyond you, to carry the glad-message: not, within another man’s limit, as to the things made ready, to boast ourselves.
17 誇る者は主によりて誇るべし。
He that boasteth, however, in the Lord, let him boast;
18 そは是とせらるるは己を譽むる者にあらず、主の譽め給ふ者なればなり。
For, not he that commendeth himself, he, is approved, but he whom, the Lord, doth commend.
