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 custom was, went in unto them, and for three sabbath days reasoned with them from 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 it behoved the Christ to suffer, and to rise again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom, [said he], I proclaim unto you, is the 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 were persuaded, 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, being moved with jealousy, took unto them certain vile fellows of the rabble, and gathering a crowd, set the city on an uproar; and assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them forth 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 dragged Jason and certain brethren before the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither 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 hath received: and these all act 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 multitude 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 from Jason and the rest, 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 Beroea: who when they were come 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。
Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the scriptures daily, whether these 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。
Many of them therefore believed; also of the Greek women of honourable estate, 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 of God was proclaimed of Paul at Beroea also, they came thither likewise, stirring up and troubling the multitudes.
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 forth Paul to go as far as to the sea: and Silas and Timothy 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。
But they that conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timothy that they should 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 was provoked within him, as he beheld the city full of idols.
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。
So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day 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。
And certain also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, What would this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached 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 hold of him, and brought him unto the Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by thee?
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 thou bringest 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。
(Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning 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。
And Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus, and said, Ye men of Athens, in all things I perceive that ye are somewhat 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 along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What therefore ye worship in ignorance, this set I forth 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。
The God that made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth 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 he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself giveth 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 he made of one every nation of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined [their] appointed seasons, 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 God, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he is not far from each 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 even 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。
Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and device of man.
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。
The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere 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』
inasmuch as he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath 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。
Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, We will hear thee concerning this yet again.
33 ここにパウロ人々のなかを出で去る。
Thus Paul went out 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。
But certain men clave unto him, and believed: among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
