ヘブル人への手紙 6
1 この故に我らはキリストの教の初歩に止ることなく、再び死にたる行爲の悔改と神に對する信仰との基、
Therefore leaving elementary instruction about the Christ, let us advance to mature manhood and not be continually re-laying a foundation of repentance from lifeless works and of faith in God,
or of teaching about ceremonial washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and the last judgement. (aiōnios g166)
3 神もし許し給はば、我ら之をなさん。
And advance we will, if God permits us to do so.
4 一たび照されて天よりの賜物を味ひ、聖 靈に與る者となり、
For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once for all been enlightened, and have tasted the sweetness of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
and have realized how good the word of God is and how mighty are the powers of the coming Age, and then fell away-- (aiōn g165)
6 墮落する者は更にまた自ら神の子を十字架に釘けて肆し者とする故に、再びこれを悔改に立返らすること能はざるなり。
it is impossible, I say, to keep bringing them back to a new repentance, for, to their own undoing, they are repeatedly crucifying the Son of God afresh and exposing Him to open shame.
7 それ地しばしば其の上に降る雨を吸ひ入れて耕す者の益となるべき作物を生ぜば、神より祝福を受く。
For land which has drunk in the rain that often falls upon it, and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sakes, indeed, it is tilled, has a share in God's blessing.
8 されど茨と薊とを生ぜば、棄てられ、かつ詛に近く、その果ては焚かるるなり。
But if it only yields a mass of thorns and briers, it is considered worthless, and is in danger of being cursed, and in the end will be destroyed by fire.
9 愛する者よ、われら斯くは語れど、汝らには更に善きこと、即ち救にかかはる事あるを深く信ず。
But we, even while we speak in this tone, have a happier conviction concerning you, my dearly-loved friends--a conviction of things which point towards salvation.
10 神は不義に在さねば、汝らの勤勞と、前に聖徒につかへ、今もなほ之に事へて御名のために顯したる愛とを忘れ給ふことなし。
For God is not unjust so that He is unmindful of your labour and of the love which you have manifested towards Himself in having rendered services to His people and in still rendering them.
11 我らは汝 等がおのおの終まで前と同じ勵をあらはして全き望を保ち、
But we long for each of you to continue to manifest the same earnestness, with a view to your enjoying fulness of hope to the very End;
12 怠ることなく、信仰と耐忍とをもて約束を嗣ぐ人々に效はんことを求む。
so that you may not become half-hearted, but be imitators of those who through faith and patient endurance are now heirs to the promises.
13 それ神はアブラハムに約し給ふとき、指して誓ふべき己より大なる者なき故に、己を指して誓ひて言ひ給へり、
For when God gave the promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself,
14 『われ必ず、なんぢを惠み惠まん、なんぢを殖し殖さん』と、
saying, "Assuredly I will bless you and bless you, I will increase you and increase you."
15 斯くの如くアブラハムは耐へ忍びて約束のものを得たり。
And so, as the result of patient waiting, our forefather obtained what God had promised.
16 おほよそ人は己より大なる者を指して誓ふ、その誓はすべての爭論を罷むる保證たり。
For men swear by what is greater than themselves; and with them an oath in confirmation of a statement always puts an end to a dispute.
17 この故に神は約束を嗣ぐ者に御旨の變らぬことを充分に示さんと欲して誓を加へ給へり。
In the same way, since it was God's desire to display more convincingly to the heirs of the promise how unchangeable His purpose was,
18 これ神の謊ること能はぬ二つの變らぬものによりて、己の前に置かれたる希望を捉へんとて遁れたる我らに強き奨勵を與へん爲なり。
He added an oath, in order that, through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for Him to prove false, we may possess mighty encouragement--we who, for safety, have hastened to lay hold of the hope set before us.
19 この希望は我らの靈魂の錨のごとく安全にして動かず、かつ幔の内に入る。
That hope we have as an anchor of the soul--an anchor that can neither break nor drag. It passes in behind the veil,
