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』
The high priest said, “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、
He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
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, ‘Get out of your land and away from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’
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 out of the land of the Chaldaeans and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land where you are now living.
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。
He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his offspring after him, when he still 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。
God spoke in this way: that his offspring would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for 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」
‘I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,’ said God, ‘and after that they will come out 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。
He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of 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、
“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. 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 out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. 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 a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.
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 grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.
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。
On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family was revealed 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、
Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his relatives, 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。
Jacob went down into Egypt and he died, himself 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 they were brought back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.
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 as the time of the promise came close 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。
until there arose a different king who didn’t know 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 took advantage of our race and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to abandon their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.
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、
At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome to God. He was nourished three months in his father’s house.
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。
When he was abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up and reared him as 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。
Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.
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、
But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, 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。
Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him and avenged him who was oppressed, striking 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。
He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn’t understand.
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」
“The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, ‘Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one 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 who did his neighbour wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you 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」
Do you want to kill me as you killed 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。
Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of 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、
“When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, 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. As he came close to see, 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。
‘I am the God of your fathers: the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ Moses trembled and dared not look.
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。
The Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you stand 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 surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you 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 you a ruler and a judge?’—God has sent him as both 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。
This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for 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, ‘The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from amongst your brothers, like me.’
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 who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations 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、
to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him and turned back in their hearts to 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 that will go before us, for as for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has 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。
They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their 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。
But God turned away and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
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。
You took up the tabernacle of Moloch, the star of your god Rephan, the figures which you made to worship, so 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 the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern 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, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations 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 favour in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation 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
However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,
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 the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?’ says 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。
Didn’t my hand make 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。
“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
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 didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become 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』
You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep 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。
Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at 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 at 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、
But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears, then rushed at 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。
They threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named 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』
They stoned Stephen as he called out, 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。
He knelt down and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.
