使徒の働き 17
1 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、
Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:
2 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、
And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
3 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。
Opening and alleging, that Christ must essentially have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.
4 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。
And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.
5 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、
But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
6 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、
And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come here also;
7 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』
Whom Jason has received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.
8 之をききて群衆と町 司たちと心をさわがし、
And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things.
9 保證を取りてヤソンと他の人々とを釋せり。
And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other, they let them go.
10 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。
And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.
11 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。
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word (logos) with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
12 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。
Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
13 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。
But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word (logos) of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people.
14 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。
And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.
15 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。
And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus in order to come to him with all speed, they departed.
16 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。
Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit (pneuma) was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
17 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。
Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.
18 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。
Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seems to be a proclaimer of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
19 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。
And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof you speak, is?
20 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』
For you bring certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
21 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。
(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
22 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。
Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, All of you men of Athens, I perceive that in all things all of you are too superstitious.
23 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。
For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore all of you ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
24 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。
God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands;
25 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。
Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he gives to all life, and breath, and all things;
26 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。
And has made of one blood all nations of men in order to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
27 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、
That they should seek the Lord, if lest by any means they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
28 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。
For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
29 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。
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by are and man's device.
30 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。
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands all men every where to repent:
31 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』
Because he has appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained; whereof he has given assurance unto all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.
32 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。
And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear you again of this matter.
33 ここにパウロ人々のなかを出で去る。
So Paul departed from among them.
34 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。
Nevertheless certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
