ヨハネの黙示録 17
1 七つの鉢を持てる七人の御使の一人きたり、我に語りて言ふ『來れ、われ多くの水の上に坐する大淫婦の審判を汝に示さん。
And one of the seven angels, which had the seven bowls, came and spoke with me, saying, Come here, I will shew thee the sentence of the great harlot who sits upon the many waters;
2 地の王たちは之と淫をおこなひ、地に住む者らは其の淫行の葡萄酒に醉ひたり』
with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication; and they that dwell on the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 かくてわれ御靈に感じ、御使に携へられて荒野にゆき、緋色の獸に乘れる女を見たり、この獸の體は神を涜す名にて覆はれ、また七つの頭と十の角とあり。
And he carried me away in spirit to a desert; and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 女は紫色と緋とを著、金・寶石・眞珠にて身を飾り、手には憎むべきものと己が淫行の汚とにて滿ちたる金の酒杯を持ち、
And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and had ornaments of gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and the unclean things of her fornication;
5 額には記されたる名あり。曰く『奧義 大なるバビロン、地の淫婦らと憎むべき者との母』
and upon her forehead a name written, Mystery, great Babylon, the mother of the harlots, and of the abominations of the earth.
6 我この女を見るに、聖徒の血とイエスの證人の血とに醉ひたり。我これを見て大に怪しみたれば、
And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And I wondered, seeing her, with great wonder.
7 御使われに言ふ『なにゆゑ怪しむか、我この女と之を乘せたる七つの頭、十の角ある獸との奧義を汝に告げん。
And the angel said to me, Why hast thou wondered? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast which carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.
8 なんぢの見し獸は前に有りしも今あらず、後に底なき所より上りて滅亡に往かん、地に住む者にて世の創より其の名を生命の書に記されざる者は、獸の前にありて今あらず、後に來るを見て怪しまん。 (Abyssos g12)
The beast which thou sawest was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go into destruction: and they who dwell on the earth, whose names are not written from the founding of the world in the book of life, shall wonder, seeing the beast, that it was, and is not, and shall be present. (Abyssos g12)
9 智慧の心は茲にあり。七つの頭は女の坐する七つの山なり、また七人の王なり。
Here is the mind that has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains, whereon the woman sits.
10 五 人は既に倒れて一人は今あり、他の一人は未だ來らず、來らば暫時のほど止るべきなり。
And there are seven kings: five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; and when he comes he must remain [only] a little while.
11 前にありて今あらぬ獸は第八なり、前の七人より出でたる者にして滅亡に往くなり。
And the beast that was and is not, he also is an eighth, and is of the seven, and goes into destruction.
12 汝の見し十の角は十 人の王にして未だ國を受けざれども、一時のあひだ獸と共に王のごとき權威を受くべし。
And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have not yet received a kingdom, but receive authority as kings one hour with the beast.
13 彼らは心を一つにして己が能力と權威とを獸にあたふ。
These have one mind, and give their power and authority to the beast.
14 彼らは羔羊と戰はん。而して羔羊かれらに勝ち給ふべし、彼は主の主、王の王なればなり。これと偕なる召されたるもの、選ばれたるもの、忠實なる者も勝を得べし』
These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them; for he is Lord of lords and King of kings: and they [that are] with him called, and chosen, and faithful.
15 御使また我に言ふ『なんぢの見し水、すなわち淫婦の坐する處は、もろもろの民・群衆・國・國語なり。
And he says to me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.
16 なんぢの見し十の角と獸とは、かの淫婦を憎み、之をして荒涼ばしめ、裸ならしめ、且その肉を喰ひ、火をもて之を燒き盡さん。
And the ten horns which thou sawest, and the beast, these shall hate the harlot, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her with fire;
17 神は彼らに御旨を行ふことと、心を一つにすることと、神の御言の成就するまで國を獸に與ふることとを思はしめ給ひたればなり。
for God has given to their hearts to do his mind, and to act with one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 なんぢの見し女は地の王たちを宰どる大なる都なり』
And the woman which thou sawest is the great city, which has kingship over the kings of the earth.
