ヨハネの黙示録 2
1 エペソに在る教會の使に書きおくれ。「右の手に七つの星を持つ者、七つの金の燈臺の間に歩むもの斯く言ふ、
“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things:
2 われ汝の行爲と勞と忍耐とを知る。また汝が惡しき者を忍び得ざることと、自ら使徒と稱へて使徒にあらぬ者どもを試みて、その虚僞なるを見あらはししこととを知る。
“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.
3 なんぢは忍耐を保ち、我が名のために忍びて倦まざりき。
You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.
4 されど我なんぢに責むべき所あり、なんぢは初の愛を離れたり。
But I have this against you, that you left your first love.
5 さればなんぢ何處より墜ちしかを思へ、悔改めて初の行爲をなせ、然らずして若し悔改めずば、我なんぢに到り汝の燈臺を、その處より取除かん。
Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.
6 されど汝に取るべき所あり、汝はニコライ宗の行爲を憎む、我も之を憎むなり。
But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
7 耳ある者は御靈の諸 教會に言ひ給ふことを聽くべし、勝を得る者には、われ神のパラダイスに在る生命の樹の實を食ふことを許さん」
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.
8 スミルナに在る教會の使に書きおくれ。「最先にして最後なる者、死人となりて復 生きし者かく言ふ。
“To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: “The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:
9 われ汝の艱難と貧窮とを知る――されど汝は富める者なり。我はまた自らユダヤ人と稱へてユダヤ人にあらず、サタンの會に屬く者より汝が譏を受くるを知る。
“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
10 なんぢ受けんとする苦難を懼るな、視よ、惡魔なんぢらを試みんとて、汝らの中の或 者を獄に入れんとす。汝ら十日のあひだ患難を受けん、なんぢ死に至るまで忠實なれ、然らば我なんぢに生命の冠冕を與へん。
Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
11 耳ある者は御靈の諸 教會に言ひ給ふことを聽くべし。勝を得るものは第二の死に害はるることなし」
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death.
12 ペルガモに在る教會の使に書きおくれ。「兩刃の利き劍を持つもの斯く言ふ、
“To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write: “He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things:
13 われ汝の住むところを知る、彼處にはサタンの座位あり、汝わが名を保ち、わが忠實なる證人アンテパスが、汝 等のうち即ちサタンの住む所にて殺されし時も、なほ我を信ずる信仰を棄てざりき。
“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
14 されど我なんぢに責むべき一二の事あり、汝の中にバラムの教を保つ者どもあり、バラムはバラクに教へ、彼をしてイスラエルの子孫の前に躓物を置かしめ、偶像に献げし物を食はせ、かつ淫行をなさしめたり。
But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
15 斯くのごとく汝らの中にもニコライ宗の教を保つ者あり。
So also you likewise have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.
16 さらば悔改めよ、然らずば我すみやかに汝に到り、わが口の劍にて彼らと戰はん。
Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.
17 耳ある者は御靈の諸 教會に言ひ給ふことを聽くべし、勝を得る者には我かくれたるマナを與へん、また受くる者の外たれも知らざる新しき名を録したる白き石を與へん」
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows but he who receives it.
18 テアテラに在る教會の使に書きおくれ。「目は焔のごとく、足は輝ける眞鍮の如くなる神の子かく言ふ、
“To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: “The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:
19 われ汝の行爲および汝の愛と信仰と職と忍耐とを知る、又なんぢの初の行爲よりは後の行爲の多きことを知る。
“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.
20 されど我なんぢに責むべき所あり、汝はかの自ら預言者と稱へて我が僕を教へ惑し、淫行をなさしめ、偶像に献げし物を食はしむる女イゼベルを容れおけり。
But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
21 我かれに悔改むる機を與ふれど、その淫行を悔改むることを欲せず。
I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.
22 視よ、我かれを牀に投げ入れん、又かれと共に姦淫を行ふ者も、その行爲を悔改めずば、大なる患難に投げ入れん。
Behold, I will throw her and those who commit adultery with her into a bed of great oppression, unless they repent of her works.
23 又かれの子供を打ち殺さん、斯くてもろもろの教會は、わが人の腎と心とを究むる者なるを知るべし、我は汝 等おのおのの行爲に隨ひて報いん。
I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
24 我この他のテアテラの人にして未だかの教を受けず、所謂サタンの深きところを知らぬ汝らに斯くいふ、我ほかの重を汝らに負はせじ。
But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira—as many as don’t have this teaching, who don’t know what some call ‘the deep things of Satan’—to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you.
25 ただ汝 等はその有つところを我が到らん時まで保て。
Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come.
26 勝を得て終に至るまで我が命ぜしことを守る者には、諸國の民を治むる權威を與へん。
He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.
27 彼は鐵の杖をもて之を治め、土の器を碎くが如くならん、我が父より我が受けたる權威のごとし。
He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots, as I also have received of my Father;
28 我また彼に曙の明星を與へん。
and I will give him the morning star.
29 耳ある者は御靈の諸 教會に言ひ給ふことを聽くべし」
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.
