コロサイ人への手紙 2
1 我なんぢら及びラオデキヤに居る人々、その他すべて我が肉體の顏をまだ見ぬ人のために、如何に苦心するかを汝らの知らんことを欲す。
I want you to know how hard I'm working for you, and for those at Laodicea—in fact for all those who haven't met me personally—
2 かく苦心するは、彼らが心 慰められ、愛をもて相 列り、全き穎悟の凡ての富を得て、神の奧義なるキリストを知らん爲なり。
so that you may be encouraged. May you be bound together in love, experiencing the great benefit of being completely sure in your understanding, for this is what the true knowledge of God brings. May you know the revealed mystery of God, which is Christ!
3 キリストには知慧と知識との凡ての寶 藏れあり。
In him you can discover all the rich wisdom and knowledge of God.
4 我これを言ふは、巧なる言をもて人の汝らを欺くこと勿らん爲なり。
I'm telling you this so that no one will fool you by spinning you a tale.
5 われ肉體にては汝らと離れ居れど、靈にては汝らと偕に居りて喜び、また汝らの秩序あるとキリストに對する信仰の堅きとを見るなり。
Even though I'm not physically there with you, I'm with you in spirit. I'm so happy to see the way you stick together and how firm you are in your trust in Christ.
6 汝らキリスト・イエスを主として受けたるにより、其のごとく彼に在りて歩め。
Just as you accepted Christ Jesus as Lord, go on following him,
7 また彼に根ざしてその上に建てられ、かつ教へられし如く信仰を堅くし、溢るるばかり感謝せよ。
grounded in him and built up by him. May your trust in him continue to grow strong, following what you were taught, full of gratitude to God.
8 なんぢら心すべし、恐らくはキリストに從はずして人の言傳と世の小學とに從ひ、人を惑す虚しき哲學をもて汝らを奪ひ去る者あらん。
Watch out that nobody enslaves you through their philosophy and worthless delusions, following human traditions and concepts of this world, and not following Christ.
9 それ神の滿ち足れる徳はことごとく形體をなしてキリストに宿れり。
For the fullness of God's divine nature lives in Christ in bodily form,
10 汝らは彼に在りて滿ち足れるなり。彼は凡ての政治と權威との首なり。
and you have been made full in him. He is supreme over every ruler and authority.
11 汝らまた彼に在りて手をもてせざる割禮を受けたり、即ち肉の體を脱ぎ去るものにして、キリストの割禮なり。
You were “circumcised” in him but not by human hands. You have been set free from sinful human nature by the “circumcision” Christ performed.
12 汝らバプテスマを受けしとき、彼とともに葬られ、又かれを死人の中より甦へらせ給ひし神の活動を信ずるによりて、彼と共に甦へらせられたり。
You were buried with him in baptism, and you were raised with him through your trust in what God did by raising him from the dead.
13 汝ら前には諸般の咎と肉の割禮なきとに因りて死にたる者なりしが、神は汝らを彼と共に生かし、我らの凡ての咎を赦し、
And even though you were dead because of your sins and being physically “uncircumcised,” he brought you to life together with him. He has forgiven us all our sins.
14 かつ我らを責むる規の證書、すなはち我らに逆ふ證書を塗抹し、これを中間より取り去りて十字架につけ、
He wiped out the record of our debts according to the Law that was written down against us; he took away this barrier by nailing it to the cross.
15 政治と權威とを褫ぎて之を公然に示し、十字架によりて凱旋し給へり。
He stripped away the power of spiritual rulers and authorities, and having publicly revealed what they were truly like, he led them captive behind him in victory.
16 然れば汝ら食物あるひは飮物につき、祭あるいは月朔あるいは安息 日の事につきて、誰にも審かるな。
So don't let anyone criticize you for what you eat or what you drink, or regarding which religious festival, new moon ritual, or ceremonial sabbaths you choose to observe.
17 此 等はみな來らんとする者の影にして、其の本體はキリストに屬けり。
These are just a shadow of what was to come, for the physical reality is Christ.
18 殊更に謙遜をよそほひ御使を拜する者に、汝らの褒美を奪はるな。かかる者は見し所のものに基き、肉の念に隨ひて徒らに誇り、
Don't let anyone cheat you out of your prize by insisting you have to beat yourself, or worship angels. They think they are better than anyone else because of visions they say they've had, and become ridiculously conceited in their sinful minds.
19 首に屬くことをせざるなり。全體は、この首によりて節々 維々に助けられ、相 聯り、神の育にて生長するなり。
Such people are not connected to the head that directs the body, nourished and joined together through the body's sinews and muscles. As the body is united together it grows the way God wants it to grow.
20 汝 等もしキリストと共に死にて此の世の小學を離れしならば、何ぞなほ世に生ける者のごとく人の誡命と教とに循ひて
If you died with Christ to the religious demands that this world insists upon, why would you make yourself subject to such demands as if you were still part of this world?
21 『捫るな、味ふな、觸るな』と云ふ規の下に在るか。
Things like: don't handle that, don't taste that, don't touch that!
22 （此 等はみな用ふれば盡くる物なり）
These commands refer to things that don't last since they're used up, and they're based on man-made requirements and teachings.
23 これらの誡命は、みづから定めたる禮拜と謙遜と身を惜まぬ事とによりて知慧あるごとく見ゆれど、實は肉 慾の放縱を防ぐ力なし。
Such rules may make some kind of sense to those who practice self-centered piety, who are so proud of being humble, and who “mortify the body;” but in reality they don't help at all in dealing with sinful desires.
