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1 第二項 偽教師に對する事。 民の中には偽預言者すら在りしが、斯の如く汝等の中にも亦偽教師ありて、亡の異端を齎し、己を贖ひ給ひし主を否み、速なる亡を己に招かんとす。
However, there were also false prophets among the people, just as, indeed, there will be false teachers among you, who will introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Owner who bought them (bringing on themselves swift destruction).
2 而して多くの人は彼等の放蕩に倣ひ、眞理の道は彼等の為に罵らるべし。
And many will follow their licentious ways, because of which the way of the Truth will be defamed.
3 彼等は貪欲なるが故に、空言を以て汝等に就きて利する所あらんとする者にして、其審判は昔よりありて今に歇まず、而して其亡は眠らざるなり。
And in covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; since way back the judgment for such people is not slack, and their destruction will not sleep.
Because if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but delivered them into chains of darkness, confining them in Tartarus to be reserved for judgment, (Tartaroō g5020)
5 又昔の世を赦し給はずして、義の宣教者たるノエの一家八人を守り、敬虔ならざる者の世に洪水を至らしめ給ひ、
and did not spare the ancient world but preserved Noah, with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when He brought a flood on the world of the ungodly,
6 ソドマ、ゴモラの都會を化して灰と成らしめ、不敬虔に生活すべき人々の見せしめとして、之を全滅に處し給ひ、
and condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes (providing a warning to those who are intent on being ungodly),
7 又義人ロトが非道の人々より侮辱と放蕩なる振舞とを以て悩まさるるを救出し給へり。
while He rescued upright Lot, who was distressed by the licentious lifestyle of the wicked
8 其は此義人彼等の中に住み、彼等が不義の行を見聞きして、日々に其正しき心を痛め居たればなり。
(for that upright man, dwelling among them, tormented an upright soul from day to day by seeing and hearing lawless deeds)
9 主は敬虔なる者を患難より救ふ事、又審判の日に罰せらるる様不義者を保留する事を知り給ふ。
—then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of testings and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment,
10 況や肉に從ひて穢らはしき情慾の中に歩み、主権を軽んじ、大膽横柄にして光榮あるものを罵るを畏れざる人々をや。
and especially those who go after the flesh in the lust for defilement, and despise authority. They are audacious, self-willed; they are not afraid to revile majestic beings,
11 能力と権威とに於て[彼等に]優れる天使等すら、光榮あるものに對して侮辱の評を加へざるに、
whereas angels, though being greater in might and power, do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord.
12 彼等は恰も捕へられて屠られん為に生れたる智恵なき獣に齊しくして、己が知らざる事を罵りて不義の報を受け、亡に歸すべし。
But these, as unreasoning animals, creatures of instinct made to be caught and destroyed, spouting off in matters of which they are ignorant, will be destroyed by their own depravity,
13 彼等は實に汚染なり、汚穢なり、一日の愉快を樂とし、肉の歓樂を求め、其會食に於て汝等と共に放蕩を極め、
receiving the wages of unrighteousness. Counting it a pleasure to carouse in the daytime, they are stains and blemishes, reveling in their own deceptions while they feast with you,
14 其目は姦通に充ち、罪に飽かず、精神堅固ならざる者を誑し、其心は貪欲に鍛錬して詛の子たり。
having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls; having a heart trained in greediness they are children of a curse;
15 不義の報酬を好みしボゾルの子バラアムの道を辿り、正しき道を離れて迷へり。
having forsaken the right way they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
16 彼は其罪を咎められて、言はぬ驢馬は人の聲にて語り、以て預言者の愚を戒めたりしが、
but he got a rebuke for his wrongdoing—a mute donkey speaking with a human voice restrained the insanity of the prophet.
17 彼等は水なき井、嵐に吹遣らるる雲にして、之に殘るは闇の暗さなり。
These are waterless springs, clouds driven by a storm, for whom the blackest of the darkness has been reserved forever. (questioned)
18 蓋傲慢の大言を語りて迷へる者に暫し遠ざかりたる人々を、放蕩を以て肉慾に誘ひ、
Because speaking pompous words of emptiness they entice through fleshly lusts, through licentiousness, those who have actually escaped from those who are living in error,
19 之に約するに自由を以てすれども、自らは腐敗の奴隷たり、其は人物に勝たるれば其奴隷と成ればなり。
promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.
20 抑彼等は我主にして且救主に在すイエズス、キリストを知り奉りし為に、一旦世間の穢に遠ざかりて後、再び之に負けて纏らるれば、其後の状態は前に優りて惡く成れり。
For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the real knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter circumstances have become worse for them than the first ones.
21 蓋義の道を知らざるは、寧之を知りて後、傳へられたる聖誡を遠ざかるよりは彼等に取りて優りし也。
For it would have been better for them not to have really known the way of the righteousness, than having really known it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
22 眞の諺に、其吐きたるものに還れる犬と云ひ、洗潔められて泥の中に転べる牝豚と云へるは彼等に當れり。
But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: a dog returns to its own vomit and a bathed sow to wallowing in mud.
