ローマ人への手紙 11
1 されば我いふ、神はその民を棄て給ひしか。決して然らず。我もイスラエル人にしてアブラハムの裔ベニヤミンの族の者なり。
I say then, Hath God cast away his people? By no means. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, [of] the tribe of Benjamin.
2 神はその預じめ知り給ひし民を棄て給ひしにあらず。汝らエリヤに就きて聖書に云へることを知らぬか、彼イスラエルを神に訴へて言ふ、
God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
3 『主よ、彼らは汝の預言者たちを殺し、なんぢの祭壇を毀ち、我ひとり遺りたるに、亦わが生命をも求めんとするなり』と。
Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thy altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
4 然るに御答は何と云へるか『われバアルに膝を屈めぬ者、七 千 人を我がために遺し置けり』と。
But what saith the answer of God to him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.
5 斯くのごとく今もなほ恩惠の選によりて遺れる者あり。
Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6 もし恩惠によるとせば、もはや行爲によるにあらず。然らずば恩惠はもはや恩惠たらざるべし。
And if by grace, then [is it] no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
7 さらば如何に、イスラエルはその求むる所を得ず、選ばれたる者は之を得たり、その他の者は鈍くせられたり。
What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
8 『神は今日に至るまで、彼らに眠れる心、見えぬ目、聞えぬ耳を與へ給へり』と録されたるが如し。
(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear; ) to this day.
9 ダビデも亦いふ『かれらの食卓は羂となれ、網となれ、つまづきとなれ、報となれ、
And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-block, and a recompense to them:
10 その眼は眩みて見えずなれ、常にその背を屈めしめ給へ』
Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always.
11 されば我いふ、彼らの躓きしは倒れんが爲なりや。決して然らず、反つて其の落度によりて救は異邦人に及べり、これイスラエルを勵まさん爲なり。
I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? By no means: but [rather] through their fall salvation [is come] to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
12 もし彼らの落度、世の富となり、その衰微、異邦人の富となりたらんには、まして彼らの數 滿つるに於てをや。
Now if the fall of them [be] the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?
13 われ異邦人なる汝 等にいふ、我は異邦人の使徒たるによりて己が職を重んず。
For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office:
14 これ或は我が骨肉の者を勵まし、その中の幾許かを救はん爲なり。
If by any means I may incite to emulation [them who are] my flesh, and may save some of them.
15 もし彼らの棄てらるること世の平和となりたらんには、其の受け納れらるるは、死人の中より活くると等しからずや。
For if the rejection of them [be] the reconciling of the world, what [shall] the receiving [of them be], but life from the dead?
16 もし初穗の粉 潔くば、パンの團塊も潔く、樹の根 潔くば、其の枝も潔からん。
For if the first fruit [is] holy, the lump [is] also [holy]: and if the root [is] holy, so [are] the branches.
17 若しオリブの幾許の枝きり落されて野のオリブなる汝、その中に接がれ、共にその樹の液汁ある根に與らば、
And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive-tree, art ingrafted among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive-tree;
18 かの枝に對ひて誇るな、たとひ誇るとも汝は根を支へず、根は反つて汝を支ふるなり。
Boast not against the branches. But if thou boastest, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19 なんぢ或は言はん『枝の折られしは我が接がれん爲なり』と。
Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be ingrafted.
20 實に然り、彼らは不 信によりて折られ、汝は信仰によりて立てるなり、高ぶりたる思をもたず、反つて懼れよ。
Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:
21 もし神、原 樹の枝を惜み給はざりしならば、汝をも惜み給はじ。
For if God spared not the natural branches, [take heed] lest he also spare not thee.
22 神の仁慈と、その嚴肅とを見よ。嚴肅は倒れし者にあり、仁慈はその仁慈に止る汝にあり、若しその仁慈に止らずば、汝も切り取らるべし。
Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them who fell, severity; but towards thee, goodness, if thou shalt continue in [his] goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
23 彼らも若し不 信に止らずば、接がるることあらん、神は再び彼らを接ぎ得給ふなり。
And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be ingrafted: for God is able to ingraft them again.
24 なんぢ生來の野のオリブより切り取られ、その生來に悖りて善きオリブに接がれたらんには、まして原 樹のままなる枝は己がオリブに接がれざらんや。
For if thou wast cut out of the olive-tree which is wild by nature, and wast ingrafted contrary to nature into a good olive-tree; how much more shall these, which are the natural [branches], be grafted into their own olive-tree?
25 兄弟よ、われ汝らが自己を聰しとする事なからん爲に、この奧義を知らざるを欲せず、即ち幾許のイスラエルの鈍くなれるは、異邦人の入り來りて數 滿つるに及ぶ時までなり。
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, (lest ye should be wise in your own conceits) that blindness in part hath happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles shall be come in.
26 かくしてイスラエルは悉とく救はれん。録して『救ふ者シオンより出で來りて、ヤコブより不虔を取り除かん、
And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 われその罪を除くときに彼らに立つる我が契約は是なり』とあるが如し。
For this [is] my covenant to them, when I shall take away their sins.
28 福音につきて云へば、汝 等のために彼らは敵とせられ、選につきて云へば、先祖たちの爲に彼らは愛せらるるなり。
As concerning the gospel, [they are] enemies for your sakes: but as concerning the election, [they are] beloved for the father's sakes.
29 それ神の賜物と召とは變ることなし。
For the gifts and calling of God [are] without repentance.
30 汝ら前には神に從はざりしが、今は彼らの不順によりて憐まれたる如く、
For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief;
31 彼らも汝らの受くる憐憫によりて憐まれん爲に、今は從はざるなり。
Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. (eleēsē g1653)
33 ああ神の智慧と知識との富は深いかな、その審判は測り難く、その途は尋ね難し。
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable [are] his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
34 『たれか主の心を知りし、誰かその議士となりし。
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counselor?
35 たれか先づ主に與へて其の報を受けんや』
Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed to him again?
