ヨハネの手紙第三 1
1 長老、書を愛するガイオ、わが眞をもて愛する者に贈る。
The Elder vnto the beloued Gaius, whom I loue in the trueth.
2 愛する者よ、我なんぢが靈魂の榮ゆるごとく汝すべての事に榮え、かつ健かならんことを祈る。
Beloued, I wish chiefly that thou prosperedst and faredst well as thy soule prospereth.
3 兄弟たち來りて汝が眞理を保つこと、即ち眞理に循ひて歩むことを證したれば、われ甚だ喜べり。
For I reioyced greatly when the brethren came, and testified of the trueth that is in thee, how thou walkest in the trueth.
4 我には我が子供の、眞理に循ひて歩むことを聞くより大なる喜悦はなし。
I haue no greater ioy then these, that is, to heare that my sonnes walke in veritie.
5 愛する者よ、なんぢ旅人なる兄弟たちにまで行ふ所みな忠實をもて爲せり。
Beloued, thou doest faithfully, whatsoeuer thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers,
6 かれら教會の前にて汝の愛につきて證せり。なんぢ神の御意に適ふやうに彼らを見 送らば、その行ふところ善からん。
Which bare witnesse of thy loue before the Churches. Whom if thou bringest on their iourney as it beseemeth according to God, thou shalt doe well,
7 彼らは異邦人より何をも受けずして御名のために旅立せり。
Because that for his Names sake they went forth, and tooke nothing of the Gentiles.
8 されば斯かる人を助くべきなり、我らも彼らと共に眞理のために働く者とならん爲なり。
We therefore ought to receiue such, that we might be helpers to the trueth.
9 われ曩に聊か教會に書きおくれり。然れど彼らの中に長たらんと欲するデオテレペス我らを受けず。
I wrote vnto the Church: but Diotrephes which loueth to haue the preeminence among them, receiueth vs not.
10 この故に我もし往かば、その行へる業を思ひ出させん。彼は惡しき言をもて我らを罵り、なほ足れりとせずして自ら兄弟たちを接けず、之を接けんとする者をも拒みて教會より逐ひ出す。
Wherefore if I come, I will call to your remembrance his deedes which he doeth, pratling against vs with malicious wordes, and not therewith content, neither he himselfe receiueth the brethren, but forbiddeth them that woulde, and thrusteth them out of the Church.
11 愛する者よ、惡に效ふな、善にならへ。善をおこなふ者は神より出で、惡をおこなふ者は未だ神を見ざるなり。
Beloued, follow not that which is euill, but that which is good: he that doeth well, is of God: but he that doeth euill, hath not seene God.
12 デメテリオは凡ての人にも眞理にも證せらる。我等もまた證す、なんぢ我らの證の眞なるを知る。
Demetrius hath good report of al men, and of the trueth it selfe: yea, and wee our selues beare recorde, and ye know that our record is true.
13 我なほ汝に書き贈ること多くあれど、墨と筆とにてするを欲せず、
I haue many things to write: but I will not with yncke and pen write vnto thee:
14 速かに汝を見、たがひに顏をあはせて語らんことを望む。 汝に平安あれ、朋友たち安否を問ふ。なんぢ名をさして友たちに安否を問へ。
For I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speake mouth to mouth. Peace be with thee. The friends salute thee. Greete the friends by name.
