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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。
But there were also false prophets among the people, as there will be teachers of falsehood among you also, who will cunningly introduce fatal divisions, disowning even the Sovereign Lord who has redeemed them, and 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 in their immoral ways they will have many eager disciples, through whom religion will be brought into disrepute.
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。
Thirsting for riches, they will trade on you with their canting talk. From of old their judgement has been working itself out, and their destruction has not been slumbering.
For God did not spare angels when they had sinned, but hurling them down to Tartarus consigned them to caves of darkness, keeping them in readiness for judgement. (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 He did not spare the ancient world, although He preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a deluge 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、
He reduced to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and condemned them to overthrow, making them an example to people who might in future be living godless lives.
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。
But when righteous Lot was sore distressed by the gross misconduct of immoral men He rescued him.
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 their lawless deeds were torture, day after day, to the pure soul of that righteous man--all that he saw and heard whilst living in their midst.)
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。
Since all this is so, the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from temptation, and on the other hand how to keep the unrighteous under punishment in readiness for the Day of Judgement,
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 are abandoned to sensuality--craving, as they do, for polluted things, and scorning control. Fool-hardy and self-willed, they do not tremble when speaking evil of glorious 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、
while angels, though greater than they in might and power, do not bring any insulting accusation against such in the presence of 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 men, like brute beasts, created (with their natural instincts) only to be captured or destroyed, are abusive in matters of which they are ignorant, and in their corruption will perish,
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、
being doomed to receive a requital for their guilt. They reckon it pleasure to feast daintily in broad daylight. They are spots and blemishes, while feeding luxuriously at their love-feasts, and banqueting 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。
Their very eyes are full of adultery--being eyes which never cease from sin. These men set traps to catch unstedfast souls, their own hearts being well trained in greed. They are fore-doomed to God's 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。
Forsaking the straight road, they have gone astray, having eagerly followed in the steps of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was bent on securing 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 was rebuked for his transgression: a dumb ass spoke with a human voice and checked the madness 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 people are wells without water, mists driven along by a storm, men for whom the dense darkness has been reserved.
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、
For, while they pour out their frivolous and arrogant talk, they use earthly cravings--every kind of immorality--as a bait to entrap men who are just escaping from the influence of those who live 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。
And they promise them freedom, although they are themselves the slaves of what is corrupt. For a man is the slave of any one by whom he has been worsted in fight.
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 escaping from the pollutions of the world through a full knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, people are once more entangled in these pollutions and are overcome, their last state has become worse than their first.
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 fully known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandments in which they were instructed.
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。
Their case is that described in the true proverb, "A dog returns to what he has vomited," and also in the other proverb, "The sow has washed itself and now goes back to roll in its filth."
