使徒の働き 27
1 すでに我等をイタリヤに渡らしむること決りたれば、パウロ及びその他 數人の囚人を、近衞 隊の百卒長ユリアスと云ふ人に付せり。
As it was decided that we were to sail to Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were put in charge of a centurion of the Augustan Guard, named Julius.
2 ここに我らアジヤの海邊なる各處に寄せゆくアドラミテオの船の出帆せんとするに乘りて出づ。テサロニケのマケドニヤ人アリスタルコも我らと共にありき。
We went on board a ship from Adramyttium, which was on the point of sailing to the ports along the coast of Roman Asia, and put to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, went with us.
3 次の日シドンに著きたれば、ユリアス懇切にパウロを遇ひ、その友らの許にゆきて歡待を受くることを許せり。
The next day we put in to Sidon, where Julius treated Paul in a friendly manner, and allowed him to go to see his friends and receive their hospitality.
4 かくて此處より船出せしが、風の逆ふによりてクプロの風下の方をはせ、
Putting to sea again, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the wind was against us;
5 キリキヤ及びパンフリヤの沖を過ぎてルキヤのミラに著く。
and, after crossing the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we reached Myra in Lycia.
6 彼處にてイタリヤにゆくアレキサンデリヤの船に遇ひたれば、百卒長われらを之に乘らしむ。
There the Roman officer found an Alexandrian ship on her way to Italy, and put us on board of her.
7 多くの日のあひだ船の進み遲く、辛うじてクニドに對へる處に到りしが、風に阻へられてサルモネの沖を過ぎ、クレテの風下の方をはせ、
For several days our progress was slow, and it was only with difficulty that we arrived off Cnidus. As the wind was still unfavorable when we came off Cape Salmone, we sailed under the lee of Crete,
8 陸に沿ひ辛うじて良き港といふ處につく。その近き處にラサヤの町あり。
and with difficulty, by keeping close in shore, we reached a place called ‘Fair Havens,’ near which was the town of Lasea.
9 船路 久しきを歴て、斷食の期節も既に過ぎたれば、航海 危きにより、パウロ人々に勸めて言ふ、
This had taken a considerable time, and sailing was already dangerous, for the Fast was already over; and so Paul gave this warning.
10 『人々よ、我この航海の害あり損 多くして、ただ積荷と船とのみならず、我らの生命にも及ぶべきを認む』
“My friends,” he said, “I see that this voyage will be attended with injury and much damage, not only to the cargo and the ship, but to our own lives also.”
11 されど百卒長は、パウロの言ふ所よりも船 長と船 主との言を重んじたり。
The Roman officer, however, was more influenced by the captain and the owner than by what was said by Paul.
12 且この港は冬を過すに不便なるより、多數の者も、なし得んにはピニクスに到り、彼處にて冬を過さんとて、此處を船出するを可しとせり。ピニクスはクレテの港にて東 北と東 南とに向ふ。
And, as the harbor was not a suitable one to winter in, the majority were in favor of continuing the voyage, in hope of being able to reach Phoenix, and winter there. Phoenix was a Cretan harbor, open to the north-east and south-east.
13 南 風おもむろに吹きたれば、彼ら志望を得たりとして錨をあげ、クレテの岸邊に沿ひて進みたり。
So, when a light wind sprang up from the south, thinking that they had found their opportunity, they weighed anchor and kept along the coast of Crete, close in shore.
14 幾程もなくユーラクロンといふ疾風その島より吹きおろし、
But shortly afterward a hurricane came down on us off the land – a north-easter, as it is called.
15 之がために船は吹き流され、風に向ひて進むこと能はねば、船は風の追ふに任す。
The ship was caught by it and was unable to keep her head to the wind, so we had to give way and let her drive before it.
16 クラウダといふ小島の風下の方にいたり、辛うじて小艇を收め、
Running under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we only just managed to secure the ship’s boat,
17 これを船に引上げてのち、備綱にて船體を卷き縛り、またスルテスの洲に乘りかけんことを恐れ、帆を下して流る。
and, after hoisting it on board, the men frapped the ship. But, afraid of being driven on to the Syrtis Sands, they lowered the yard, and then drifted.
18 いたく暴風に惱され、次の日、船の者ども積荷を投げすて、
So violently were we tossed about by the storm, that the next day they began throwing the cargo overboard,
19 三日めに手づから船具を棄てたり。
and, on the following day, threw out the ship’s tackle with their own hands.
20 數日のあひだ日も星も見えず、暴風はげしく吹き荒びて、我らの救はるべき望ついに絶え果てたり。
As neither sun nor stars were visible for several days, and, as the gale still continued severe, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned.
21 人々の食せぬこと久しくなりたる時、パウロその中に立ちて言ふ『人々よ、なんぢら前に我が勸をきき、クレテより船出せずして、この害と損とを受けずあるべき筈なりき。
It was then, when they had gone a long time without food, that Paul came forward, and said, “My friends, you should have listened to me, and not have sailed from Crete and so incurred this injury and damage.
22 いま我なんぢらに勸む、心 安かれ、汝 等のうち一人だに生命をうしなふ者なし、ただ船を失はん。
Yet, even as things are, I beg you not to lose courage, for there will not be a single life lost among you – only the ship.
23 わが屬するところ我が事ふる所の神の使、昨夜わが傍らに立ちて、
For last night an angel of the God to whom I belong, and whom I serve, stood by me, and said –
24 「パウロよ、懼るな、なんぢ必ずカイザルの前に立たん、視よ、神は汝と同船する者をことごとく汝に賜へり」と云ひたればなり。
‘Have no fear, Paul; you must appear before the Emperor, and God himself has given you the lives of all your fellow voyagers.’
25 この故に人々よ、心 安かれ、我はその我に語り給ひしごとく必ず成るべしと神を信ず。
Therefore, courage, my friends! For I believe God, that everything will happen exactly as I have been told.
26 而して我らは或 島に推上げらるべし』
We will, however, have to be driven on some island.”
27 かくて十 四日めの夜に至りて、アドリヤの海を漂ひゆきたるに、夜半ごろ水夫ら陸に近づきたりと思ひて、
It was now the fourteenth night of the storm, and we were drifting about in the Adriatic Sea, when, about midnight, the sailors began to suspect that they were drawing near land.
28 水を測りたれば、二 十 尋なるを知り、少しく進みてまた測りたれば、十 五 尋なるを知り、
So they took soundings, and found twenty fathoms of water. After waiting a little, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.
29 岩に乘り上げんことを恐れて、艫より錨を四つ投して夜明を待ちわぶ。
Then, as they were afraid of our being driven on some rocky coast, they let go four anchors from the stern, and longed for daylight.
30 然るに水夫ら船より逃れ去らんと欲し、舳より錨を曳きゆくに言 寄せて小艇を海に下したれば、
The sailors wanted to leave the ship, and had lowered the boat, on pretense of running out anchors from the bows,
31 パウロ、百卒長と兵卒らとに言ふ『この者ども若し船に留らずば、汝ら救はるること能はず』
when Paul said to the Roman officer and his men, “Unless the sailors remain on board, you cannot be saved.”
32 ここに兵卒ら小艇の綱を斷切りて、その流れゆくに任す。
So the soldiers cut the ropes which held the boat, and let her drift away.
33 夜の明けんとする頃、パウロ凡ての人に食せんことを勸めて言ふ『なんぢら待ち待ちて食事せぬこと今日にて十 四日なり。
In the interval before daybreak Paul kept urging them all to take something to eat. “It is a fortnight today,” he said, “that, owing to your anxiety, you have gone without food, taking nothing.
34 されば汝らに食せんことを勸む、これ汝らが救のためなり、汝らの頭髮 一筋だに首より落つる事なし』
So I beg you to take something to eat; your safety depends on it, for not one of you will lose even a hair of his head.”
35 斯く言ひて後みづからパンを取り、一同の前にて神に謝し、擘きて食し始めたれば、
With these words he took some bread, and, after saying the thanksgiving to God before them all, broke it in pieces, and began to eat;
36 人々もみな心を安んじて食したり。
and the men all felt cheered and had something to eat themselves.
37 船に居る我らは凡て二 百 七 十 六 人なりき。
There were about seventy-six of us on board, all told.
38 人々 食し飽きてのち、穀物を海に投げ棄てて船を輕くせり。
After satisfying their hunger, they further lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea.
39 夜明になりて、孰の土地かは知らねど、砂濱の入江を見出し、なし得べくば此處に船を寄せんと相 議り、
When daylight came, they could not make out what land it was, but, observing a creek in which there was a beach, they consulted as to whether they could run the ship safely into it.
40 錨を斷ちて海に棄つるとともに、舵纜をゆるめ舳の帆を揚げて、風にまかせつつ砂濱さして進む。
Then they cast off, and abandoned the anchors, and at the same time unlashed the gear of the steering oars, hoisted the foresail to the wind, and made for the beach.
41 然るに潮の流れあふ處にいたりて船を淺瀬に乘り上げたれば、舳 膠著きて動かず、艫は浪の激しきに破れたり。
They got, however, into a kind of channel, and there ran the ship aground. The bows stuck fast and could not be moved, while the stern began breaking up under the strain.
42 兵卒らは囚人の泳ぎて逃れ去らんことを恐れ、これを殺さんと議りしに、
The advice of the soldiers was that the prisoners should be killed, so that none of them could swim away and make their escape.
43 百卒長パウロを救はんと欲して、その議るところを阻み、泳ぎうる者に命じ、海に跳び入りてまず上陸せしめ、
But the Roman officer, anxious to save Paul, prevented their carrying out their intention, and ordered that those who could swim should be the first to jump into the sea and try to reach the shore;
44 その他の者をば或は板あるひは船の碎片に乘らしむ。斯くしてみな上陸して救はるるを得たり。
and that the rest should follow, some on planks, and others on different pieces of the ship. In these various ways everyone managed to get safely ashore.
