使徒の働き 7
1 かくて大 祭司いふ『此 等のこと果してかくの如きか』
Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
2 ステパノ言ふ『兄弟たち親たちよ、聽け、我らの先祖アブラハム未だカランに住まずして尚メソポタミヤに居りしとき、榮光の神あらはれて、
And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
3 「なんぢの土地、なんぢの親族を離れて、我が示さんとする地に往け」と言ひ給へり。
And said to him, Depart from thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee.
4 ここにカルデヤの地に出でてカランに住みたりしが、その父の死にしのち、神は彼を彼處より汝らの今 住める此の地に移らしめ、
Then he came from the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charran. And from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land in which ye now dwell.
5 此處にて足、蹈立つる程の地をも嗣業に與へ給はざりき。然るに、その地を未だ子なかりし彼と彼の裔とに所有として與へんと約し給へり。
And he gave him no inheritance in it, no not [so much as] to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his offspring after him, when [as yet] he had no child.
6 神また其の裔は他の國に寄寓人となり、その國人は之を四百年のあひだ奴隷となして苦しめん事を告げ給へり。
And God spoke on this wise, That his offspring should sojourn in a foreign land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and treat [them] ill four hundred years.
7 神いひ給ふ「われは彼らを奴隷とする國人を審かん、然るのち彼 等その國を出で、この處にて我に事へん」
And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that they shall come forth, and serve me in this place.
8 神また割禮の契約をアブラハムに與へ給ひたれば、イサクを生みて八日めに之に割禮を行へり。イサクはヤコブを、ヤコブは十二の先祖を生めり。
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so [Abraham] begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac [begat] Jacob, and Jacob [begat] the twelve patriarchs.
9 先祖たちヨセフを嫉みてエジプトに賣りしに、神は彼と偕に在して、
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
10 凡ての患難より之を救ひ出し、エジプトの王パロの前にて寵愛を得させ、また智慧を與へ給ひたれば、パロ之を立ててエジプトと己が全家との宰となせり。
And delivered him from all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt, and all his house.
11 時にエジプトとカナンの全地とに飢饉ありて大なる患難おこり、我らの先祖たち糧を求め得ざりしが、
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction; and our fathers found no sustenance.
12 ヤコブ、エジプトに穀物あるを聞きて、先づ我らの先祖たちを遣す。
But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
13 二度めの時ヨセフその兄弟たちに知られ、ヨセフの氏族パロに明かになれり。
And at the second [time] Joseph was made known to his brethren: and Joseph's kindred was made known to Pharaoh.
14 ヨセフ言ひ遣して己が父ヤコブと凡ての親族と七 十 五 人を招きたれば、
Then Joseph sent, and called his father Jacob to [him], and all his kindred, seventy five souls.
15 ヤコブ、エジプトに下り、彼處にて己も我らの先祖たちも死にたり。
So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
16 彼 等シケムに送られ、曾てアブラハムがシケムにてハモルの子 等より銀をもて買ひ置きし墓に葬られたり。
And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulcher that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor [the father] of Sychem.
17 かくて神のアブラハムに語り給ひし約束の時 近づくに隨ひて、民はエジプトに蕃えひろがり、
But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
18 ヨセフを知らぬ他の王、エジプトに起るに及べり。
Till another king arose, who knew not Joseph.
19 王は惡計をもて我らの同族にあたり、我らの先祖たちを苦しめて、其の嬰兒の生存ふる事なからんやう、之を棄つるに至らしめたり。
The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and ill-treated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.
20 その頃モーセ生れて甚うるはしくして三月のあいだ父の家に育てられ、
In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished in his father's house three months:
21 遂に棄てられしを、パロの娘ひき上げて己が子として育てたり。
And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
22 かくてモーセはエジプト人の凡ての學術を教へられ、言と業とに能力あり。
And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
23 年齡 四十になりたる時、おのが兄弟たるイスラエルの子孫を顧みる心おこり、
And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
24 一人の害はるるを見て之を護り、エジプト人を撃ちて、虐げらるる者の仇を復せり。
And seeing one [of them] suffer wrong, he defended [him], and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
25 彼は己の手によりて神が救を與へんとし給ふことを、兄弟たち悟りしならんと思ひたるに、悟らざりき。
For he supposed his brethren to understand that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
26 翌日かれらの相 爭ふところに現れて和睦を勸めて言ふ「人々よ、汝らは兄弟なるに、何ぞ互に害ふか」
And the next day he showed himself to them as they were contending, and would have constrained them to be at peace again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren: why do ye wrong one to another?
27 隣を害ふ者モーセを押退けて言ふ「誰が汝を立てて我らの司また審判 人とせしぞ、
But he that did his neighbor wrong, thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
28 昨日エジプト人を殺したる如く、我をも殺さんとするか」
Wilt thou kill me, as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday?
29 この言により、モーセ遁れてミデアンの地の寄寓人となり、彼處にて二人の子を儲けたり。
Then Moses fled at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
30 四十 年を歴て後シナイ山の荒野にて、御使、柴の焔のなかに現れたれば、
And when forty years had expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina, an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
31 モーセ之を見て視るところを怪しみ、認めんとして近づきしとき、主の聲あり。曰く、
When Moses saw [it], he wondered at the sight; and as he drew near to behold [it], the voice of the Lord came to him,
32 「我は汝の先祖たちの神、即ちアブラハム、イサク、ヤコブの神なり」モーセ戰慄き敢へて認むることを爲ず。
[Saying], I [am] the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
33 主いひ給ふ「なんぢの足の鞋を脱げ、なんぢの立つところは聖なる地なり。
Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
34 我エジプトに居る我が民の苦難を見、その歎息をききて之を救はん爲に降れり。いで我なんぢをエジプトに遣さん」
I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
35 斯く彼らが「誰が汝を立てて司また審判 人とせしぞ」と言ひて拒みし此のモーセを、神は柴のなかに現れたる御使の手により、司また救人として遣し給へり。
This Moses, whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send [to be] a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
36 この人かれらを導き出し、エジプトの地にても、また紅海および四十 年のあひだ荒野にても、不思議と徴とを行ひたり。
He brought them out, after he had showed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
37 イスラエルの子らに「神は汝らの兄弟の中より、我がごとき預言者を起し給はん」と云ひしは此のモーセなり。
This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, A prophet will the Lord your God raise up to you of your brethren, like me; him will ye hear.
38 彼はシナイ山にて語りし御使および我らの先祖たちと偕に荒野なる集會に在りて汝らに與へん爲に生ける御言を授りし人なり。
This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on the mount Sina, and [with] our fathers: who received the living oracles to give to us:
39 然るに我らの先祖たちは此の人に從ふことを好まず、反つて之を押退け、その心エジプトに還りて、
Whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust [him] from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
40 アロンに言ふ「我らに先だち往くべき神々を造れ、我らをエジプトの地より導き出しし、かのモーセの如何になりしかを知らざればなり」
Saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for [as for] this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.
41 その頃かれら犢を造り、その偶像に犧牲をささげて己が手の所作を喜べり。
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
42 爰に神は彼らを離れ、その天の軍勢に事ふるに任せ給へり。これは預言者たちの書に「イスラエルの家よ、なんぢら荒野にて四十 年の間、屠りし畜と犧牲とを我に献げしや。
Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices [during] forty years in the wilderness?
43 汝らは拜せんとして造れる像、すなはちモロクの幕屋と神ロンパの星とを舁きたり。われ汝らをバビロンの彼方に移さん」と録されたるが如し。
Yes, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your God Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
44 我らの先祖たちは荒野にて證の幕屋を有てり、モーセに語り給ひし者の、彼が見し式に循ひて造れと命じ給ひしままなり。
Our fathers had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking to Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
45 我らの先祖たちは之を承け繼ぎ、先祖たちの前より神の逐ひいだし給ひし異邦人の領地を收めし時、ヨシユアとともに携へ來りてダビデの日に及べり。
Which also our fathers, that came after, brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David;
46 ダビデ神の前に恩惠を得て、ヤコブの神のために住處を設けんと求めたり。
Who found favor before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
47 而して、その家を建てたるはソロモンなりき。
But Solomon built him a house.
48 されど至高者は手にて造れる所に住み給はず、即ち預言者の
Yet, the Most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands, as saith the prophet,
49 「主のたまはく、天は我が座位、地は我が足臺なり。汝 等わが爲に如何なる家をか建てん、わが休息のところは何處なるぞ。
Heaven [is] my throne, and earth [is] my footstool: What house will ye build for me? saith the Lord: or what [is] the place of my rest?
50 わが手は凡て此 等の物を造りしにあらずや」と云へるが如し。
Hath not my hand made all these things?
51 項強くして心と耳とに割禮なき者よ、汝らは常に聖 靈に逆ふ、その先祖たちの如く汝らも然り。
Ye stiff-necked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers [did], so [do] ye.
52 汝らの先祖たちは預言者のうちの誰をか迫害せざりし。彼らは義人の來るを預じめ告げし者を殺し、汝らは今この義人を賣り、かつ殺す者となれり。
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them who showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers;
53 なんぢら、御使たちの傳へし律法を受けて、尚これを守らざりき』
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept [it].
54 人々これらの言を聞きて、心いかりに滿ち切齒しつつステパノに向ふ。
When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with [their] teeth.
55 ステパノは聖 靈にて滿ち、天に目を注ぎ、神の榮光およびイエスの神の右に立ちたまふを見て言ふ、
But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
56 『視よ、われ天 開けて人の子の神の右に立ち給ふを見る』
And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
57 ここに彼ら大聲に叫びつつ、耳を掩ひ心を一つにして驅け寄り、
Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
58 ステパノを町より逐ひいだし、石にて撃てり。證人らその衣をサウロといふ若者の足下に置けり。
And cast [him] out of the city, and stoned [him]: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.
59 かくて彼 等がステパノを石にて撃てるとき、ステパノ呼びて言ふ『主イエスよ、我が靈を受けたまへ』
And they stoned Stephen, calling upon [God], and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
60 また跪づきて大聲に『主よ、この罪を彼らの負はせ給ふな』と呼はる。斯く言ひて眠に就けり。
And he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
