ヘブル人への手紙 9
1 初の契約には禮拜の定と世に屬する聖所とありき。
[To continue]: In the first [covenant, God] regulated how people [should perform] rituals, and [he told them to make] [MTY] a sanctuary.
2 設けられたる幕屋あり、前なるを聖所と稱へ、その中に燈臺と案と供のパンとあり。
[That sanctuary] was a tent that [the Israelites] set up. In its outer room there was the lampstand and the table [on which they put] the bread that [the priests] presented [to God. That room] was called ‘the holy place’.
3 また第二の幕の後に至 聖所と稱ふる幕屋あり。
Behind the curtain inside [the holy place] there was [another] room. That was called ‘the very holy place’.
4 その中に金の香壇と金にて徧く覆ひたる契約の櫃とあり、この中にマナを納れたる金の壺と芽したるアロンの杖と契約の石碑とあり、
It had an altar, [made from] gold, [for burning] incense. [It also had the chest which they called] the chest of the covenant. All its sides were covered with gold. In it was the golden pot which contained [pieces of the food they called] manna. [That was the food with which God miraculously fed the people before they entered the promised land]. In the chest there was also Aaron’s walking stick that budded [to prove that he was God’s true priest]. In the chest were also the stone tablets [on which God had written] the Ten Commandments.
5 櫃の上に榮光のケルビムありて贖罪所を覆ふ。これらの物に就きては、今 一々 言ふこと能はず、
On top of [the chest] were [figures of] winged creatures [that symbolized God’s] glory. Their [wings] overshadowed the chest’s lid where [the high priest sprinkled the blood] (to [atone for/to forgive]) [those who had sinned. I] do not [need] to write about these things in detail now.
6 此 等のもの斯く備りたれば、祭司たちは常に前なる幕屋に入りて禮拜をおこなふ。
After all those things were prepared {After they had prepared all those things like that} [in the two rooms of the tent], the [Jewish] priests habitually went into the outer [room of the] tent to perform their rituals.
7 されど奧なる幕屋には、大 祭司のみ年に一度おのれと民との過失のために献ぐる血を携へて入るなり。
But into the inner room, only the Supreme Priest [went], once a year. He always took [LIT] the blood [of animals that they had slaughtered]. He offered them [to God] for his own [sins] and for the sins that other people had committed. They included sins that they did not realize [were sinful].
8 之によりて聖 靈は前なる幕屋のなほ存するあひだ、至 聖所に入る道の未だ顯れざるを示し給ふ。
By those things the Holy Spirit indicated that [just like God] did not reveal the way [for ordinary people] to enter into the inner room while the outer room still existed [MET], [similarly he did not reveal the way for ordinary people to enter the presence of God while the Jewish system of offering sacrifices was in effect].
9 この幕屋はその時のために設けられたる比喩なり、之に循ひて献げたる供物と犧牲とは、禮拜をなす者の良心を全うすること能はざりき。
[The things that the priests did inside the outer room] [MTY] symbolized [what was true] during the time [when the first covenant was in effect]. According to [the first covenant] (OR, [In that outer room]), [priests] offered gifts and other sacrifices to God. But [by offering them], the people who brought them were unable to make themselves feel that they were no longer guilty for having sinned.
10 此 等はただ食物・飮物さまざまの濯事などに係り、肉に屬する定にして、改革の時まで負せられたるのみ。
[They brought those gifts and made those sacrifices] according to [regulations concerning] things to eat and drink, and [according to rules that required people to] wash various things. [God] declared that those regulations about our bodies were to be in effect until [he put into effect the new covenant]; that was a better system.
11 然れどキリストは來らんとする善き事の大 祭司として來り、手にて造らぬ此の世に屬せぬ更に大なる全き幕屋を經て、
But when Christ came as our Supreme Priest, [he brought] the good things that are now available. When he appeared, [he went into God’s presence in heaven. That is like a] [MET] very great and perfect tent not made by humans {which no human made} [SYN]; that is, it is not part of the world [God] created. It was better [than the tent Moses set up here on earth].
[When a Supreme Priest goes into the inner room in the tent each year, he takes] goats’ blood and calves’ blood [to offer as a sacrifice]. But Christ did not [do that. It was as though] he went into that very holy place only once, taking his own blood with him. By doing that, he eternally redeemed us. (aiōnios g166)
13 もし山羊および牡牛の血、牝牛の灰などを穢れし者にそそぎて其の肉體を潔むることを得ば、
The priests sprinkle on people goats’ blood and bulls’ blood and [the water that has been filtered through] the ashes of a [red] heifer that has been [completely burned. By performing that ritual, they can ritually] cleanse the bodies of those who are [ceremonially] unclean. Furthermore, performing those rituals enabled people to have fellowship with God again.
[So, because we know what] Christ [accomplished when] his blood flowed [when he died for us] [PRS, MTY], we will be very certain that we are not guilty [of having] done those things [that those who are spiritually] dead do. [As a result], we can serve God, who is all-powerful. [The priests always offer to God animals] with no defects. Similarly, when Christ offered himself [as a sacrifice] to God, he was sinless [MET]. He did that as a result of [God’s] eternal Spirit [helping him]. (aiōnios g166)
[By] dying [for us], [Christ] ([redeemed/] free from the penalty for their sins) even those who disobeyed the [conditions of] (OR, [during the time of]) the first covenant. So, [because] no [one could be made perfect by obeying the old covenant], now Christ establishes [between God and people] a new covenant. He does that in order that those whom God has chosen may eternally have [the blessings that God] has promised them. (aiōnios g166)
16 それ遺言は必ず遺言 者の死を要す。
A covenant [is like a will. In the case of a will], [in order to put its provisions into effect], someone must prove that the one who made it has died.
17 遺言は遺言 者 死にてのち始めて效あり、遺言 者の生くる間は效なきなり。
A will goes into effect [only when the one who makes the will] has died. It is not in effect when the one who made it is still alive.
18 この故に初の契約も血なくして立てしにあらず。
And so [God] put the first covenant into effect only [LIT] by means of [animals’] blood that was shed [when they were slaughtered].
19 モーセ律法に循ひて諸般の誡命をすべての民に告げてのち、犢と山羊との血また水と緋色の毛とヒソプとをとりて、書および凡ての民にそそぎて言ふ、
After Moses had declared to all the Israelites everything that God commanded in the laws [that God gave him], he took calves’ and goats’ blood [mixed] with water. He [dipped into it] scarlet wool [that he tied around] a sprig of hyssop. Then he sprinkled [with some of the blood] the scroll itself containing God’s laws. Then he sprinkled [more of that blood on all the] people,
20 『これ神の汝らに命じたまふ契約の血なり』と。
saying to them, “This is the blood [which brings into effect] the covenant that God commanded that you [obey].”
21 また同じく幕屋と祭のすべての器とに血をそそげり。
Likewise, he sprinkled with that blood the tent and every object that they used in performing rituals.
22 おほよそ律法によれば、萬のもの血をもて潔めらる。もし血を流すことなくば、赦さるることなし。
It was by [sprinkling] blood that they [ritually] cleansed almost everything. That was what [was stated in] God’s laws. If blood is not shed [when people offer a sacrifice, God] cannot forgive [the person who is making the sacrifice].
23 この故に天に在るものに象りたる物は此 等にて潔められ、天にある物は此 等に勝りたる犧牲をもて潔めらるべきなり。
So, by rituals like that, it was necessary for [the priests] to cleanse the things that symbolized what Christ does [MTY] in heaven. But God has to [consecrate] the [people who will enter] [MTY] heaven [by means of] better sacrifices than those.
24 キリストは眞のものに象れる、手にて造りたる聖所に入らず、眞の天に入りて今より我等のために神の前にあらはれ給ふ。
Christ did not enter a sanctuary that humans made. That one only represented the true [sanctuary]. Instead, he entered heaven itself, in order to now be in God’s presence [to plead with] God for us.
25 これ大 祭司が年ごとに他の物の血をもて聖所に入るごとく、屡次おのれを献ぐる爲にあらず。
The [Jewish] Supreme Priest enters the very holy place once every year, taking blood that is not his own, [to offer it as a sacrifice]. But when Christ entered heaven, it was not in order to offer himself repeatedly like that.
[If that were so], he would have needed to suffer [and shed his blood] repeatedly since [the time when God] created the world. But instead, in this final age, [Christ] has appeared once in order that by sacrificing himself he could cause [that people] no longer will be [punished for their] sins. (aiōn g165)
27 一たび死ぬることと死にてのち審判を受くることとの人に定りたる如く、
All people must die once, and after that [God] will judge them [for their sins].
28 キリストも亦おほくの人の罪を負はんが爲に一たび献げられ、復 罪を負ふことなく、己を待 望む者に再び現れて救を得させ給ふべし。
Likewise, when Christ [died], [God] offered him once to be a sacrifice, to punish him instead of the many [people who had] sinned. He will come [to earth] a second time, not [in order to sacrifice himself again for those who] have sinned, but in order to [complete] his saving those who expectantly wait for him.
