ペテロの手紙第二 3
1 第三項 キリストの降臨及び世の終。 至愛なる者よ、我が今此第二の書簡を贈るは、此兩の書簡を以て汝等の正直なる理性を喚起し、
This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you;
2 聖なる預言者等の預め語りし言、及び汝等の使徒等の傳へし、救主にて在す主の命令を記憶せしめん為なり。
that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your emissaries:
3 先此事を知るべし、末の日には、己の慾に從ひて歩める嘲弄者等來りて言はん、
knowing this first, that in the last days scoffers will come, mocking and walking after their own lusts,
4 其降臨の約束は何處にかある、先祖等の眠りし以來、開闢の初に齊しく、総て變わる事なきに、と。
and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."
5 彼等は、故に次の事を知らざるが如し。即ち原天あり、地も亦神の御言によりて、水より出でて水を以て成立ちたりしに、
For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;
6 其時の世は、又神の御言と水とにより、水に溺れて亡びたりき。
by which means the world that then was, being deluged with water, was destroyed.
7 然るに今在る所の天と地とは、同じ御言を以て保存せられ、火に焼かれん為に、敬虔ならざる者の審判と亡との日まで保たるるなり。
But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly people.
8 至愛なる者よ、汝等斯一事を知らざるべからず、即ち主に於ては一日は一千年の如く、一千年は一日の如し。
But do not forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 或人々の思へるが如くに、主は御約束を延し給ふに非ず、唯人の亡ぶるを好み給はずして皆改心するに至らんことを好み給ふにより、汝等の為に忍耐を以て處置し給ふなり。
The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 然れど主の日は盗人の如く來るべし、其時天は大いなる轟を以て去り、物質は焼毀れ、地と其上なる被造物とは焼毀びん。
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works on it will not be found.
11 斯の如く萬物の毀るべきを覚りて、汝等は如何にも聖なる行状及び敬虔の業に於て、
Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,
12 主の日の來るを待ち、且之を早むべきなり。彼日に當りて、天は燃毀れ、物質は火勢を以て鎔かさるべし。
looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
13 然れど我等は其約束に從ひて、義の住む所の新しき天と新しき地とを待つなり。
But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.
14 是故に、至愛なる者よ、自ら是等の事を待ちつつ、平和に於て汚染なく瑕疵なく認められん事を努めよ。
Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without blemish and blameless in his sight.
15 又我主の忍耐を救なりと思へ。我等が至愛の兄弟パウロが、其賜はりたる知識を以て汝等に書贈り、
Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you;
16 又凡ての書簡に於て是等の事に就きて語りしが如し。彼が書簡には往々暁り難き所ありて、無學者と心の堅からざる者とは、他の聖書を曲解するが如く、之をも曲解して自ら亡に至る。
as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
17 然れば兄弟等よ、汝等は豫め之を知りて注意せよ、不法人の迷に誘はれて己が堅固を失ふこと勿れ。
You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.
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