使徒の働き 17
1 其よりアンフィポリとアポロニアとを経てテサロニケに至りしが、此處にユデア人の會堂ありければ、
And having passed through Amphipolis, and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was the synagogue of the Jews,
2 パウロ例によりて彼等の中に入り、三の安息日に亘りて、聖書に就きて弁論し、
and according to the custom of Paul, he went in unto them, and for three sabbaths he was reasoning with them from the Writings,
3 キリストが必ず苦しみて死者の中より復活すべかりし事と、我が汝等に告ぐるイエズスがキリストたる事とを説きて論證したるに、
opening and alleging, 'That the Christ it behoved to suffer, and to rise again out of the dead, and that this is the Christ — Jesus whom I proclaim to you.'
4 其中の或人々、及び神を尊べる數多のギリシア人、其他貴婦人等も少からず承服して、パウロとシラとに属けり。
And certain of them did believe, and attached themselves to Paul and to Silas, also of the worshipping Greeks a great multitude, of the principal women also not a few.
5 然るにユデア人妬を起して、無頼漢の中より數人の惡者を手に属け、人々を招集して市中を騒がし、又ヤソンの家を圍みてパウロとシラとを人民の前に引出さんと努めたりしが、
And the unbelieving Jews, having been moved with envy, and having taken to them of the loungers certain evil men, and having made a crowd, were setting the city in an uproar; having assailed also the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring [them] to the populace,
6 彼等を見付け得ず、ヤソンと數人の兄弟とを市の吏員の許に引行きて、天下を覆したる彼人々此處にも來れるを、
and not having found them, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the city rulers, calling aloud — 'These, having put the world in commotion, are also here present,
7 ヤソンが承容れて、一同にイエズス[と云ふ]王別に在りと稱へ、セザルの勅令に逆らふなり、と叫びつつ、
whom Jason hath received; and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying another to be king — Jesus.'
8 人民と之を聞ける市の吏員とを煽動し、
And they troubled the multitude and the city rulers, hearing these things,
9 ヤソン及び其他の人々より保證金を受けて之を赦せり。
and having taking security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
10 然て兄弟等直に、パウロとシラとを夜の中にベレアへ送りしかば、彼等其處に着きてユデア人の會堂に入りしが、
And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews;
11 此處の人々はテサロニケに在る者等よりは、高尚にして、熱心に言を承け、此事果して然りや否やと、日々聖書を調べ居たり。
and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;
12 斯て其中に信じたる人多く、ギリシアの貴婦人にも男子にも其數少からざりき。
many, indeed, therefore, of them did believe, and of the honourable Greek women and men not a few.
13 然る程にテサロニケに在るユデア人、ベレアにもパウロによりて神の御言の傳はれるを知り、又此處に來りて、群集を煽動して騒がししかば、
And when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that also in Berea was the word of God declared by Paul, they came thither also, agitating the multitudes;
14 兄弟等即時にパウロを海辺に至らしめ、シラとチモテオとはベレアに留れり。
and then immediately the brethren sent forth Paul, to go on as it were to the sea, but both Silas and Timothy were remaining there.
15 パウロを案内せる人々はアデンスまで送行きしが、シラとチモテオとに成るべく速に我許に來れとの命を、パウロより受けて立歸れり。
And those conducting Paul, brought him unto Athens, and having received a command unto Silas and Timotheus that with all speed they may come unto him, they departed;
16 パウロアデンスに在りて彼等を待てる間、此都會の偶像崇拝に耽るを見て憤激し、
and Paul waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, beholding the city wholly given to idolatry,
17 會堂にてはユデア人及びユデア教に歸依せし人々と論じ、市場にても居合せたる人々と日毎に論じ居たり。
therefore, indeed, he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the worshipping persons, and in the market-place every day with those who met with him.
18 時にエピクリアン及びストイック派の哲學者數人、之と論じ合ひけるが、或人は、此囀人は何を云ふ者ぞ、と云ひ、或人は、彼は新しき鬼神を告ぐる者の如し、と云ひ居たり、是パウロがイエズスと復活との福音を彼等に告ぐればなり。
And certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were meeting together to see him, and some were saying, 'What would this seed picker wish to say?' and others, 'Of strange demons he doth seem to be an announcer;' because Jesus and the rising again he did proclaim to them as good news,
19 斯てパウロをアレオパグに連行きて云ひけるは、汝が説ける此新しき教は如何なるものぞ、我等之を知ることを得べきか、
having also taken him, unto the Areopagus they brought [him], saying, 'Are we able to know what [is] this new teaching that is spoken by thee,
20 即ち汝は何等かの新しき事を我等の耳に入るるが故に、我等は其何事なるかを知らんと欲するなり、と。
for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;'
21 蓋アデンス人も寄留人も皆、唯耳新しき何事かを、或は言ひ或は聞きて日を送る者なりき。
and all Athenians, and the strangers sojourning, for nothing else were at leisure but to say something, and to hear some newer thing.
22 其時パウロアレオパグの中央に立ちて云ひけるは、アデンス人よ我は汝等が萬事に於て宗教心の甚だ厚きが如きを認む。
And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, 'Men, Athenians, in all things I perceive you as over-religious;
23 即ち通りがけに、熟汝等の禮拝物を見て、知れざる神に[献ぐ]、と記せる祠をも見付けたればなり。然れば我汝等が知らずして尊べる其者をば汝等に告げん。
for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I found also an erection on which had been inscribed: To God — unknown; whom, therefore — not knowing — ye do worship, this One I announce to you.
24 世界と其中に在る一切の物とを造り給へる神は、天地の主にて在せば、手にて造れる宮には住み給はず、
'God, who did make the world, and all things in it, this One, of heaven and of earth being Lord, in temples made with hands doth not dwell,
25 御自萬物に生命と呼吸と一切の事とを賜へば、何等の乏しき所あるものの如く、人手にて事へらるる者に非ず、
neither by the hands of men is He served — needing anything, He giving to all life, and breath, and all things;
26 一人よりして地の全面に住ふまでに人類を造為し給ひ、季節と住居の界とを定め給へるは、
He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth — having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings —
27 是人をして神を求め、或は探出さしめん為なり。然れども彼は、我等面々を離れ給ふ事遠からず、
to seek the Lord, if perhaps they did feel after Him and find, — though, indeed, He is not far from each one of us,
28 蓋彼に在りてこそ、我等は且活き且動き且存在するなれ。汝等が詩人の誰彼も、我等も亦彼が裔なり、と云へるが如し。
for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.
29 斯く我等は神の裔なれば、神を金、或は銀、或は石、即ち芸術及び人の想像に由れる彫刻に似たる者と思ふべからず。
'Being, therefore, offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold, or silver, or stone, graving of art and device of man;
30 神は斯る蒙昧の時代を見過し給ひて、今人に向ひて、何處にても悉く改心すべしと命じ給ふ。
the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,
31 蓋日を期し給ひて、其日自ら立て給ひし一個の人、即ち之を死者の中より復活せしめて萬民の前に保證し給ひたる一人を以て、世界を義に從ひて審かんとし給ふなり、と。
because He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He did ordain, having given assurance to all, having raised him out of the dead.'
32 死者の復活と聞きて、或人々は、嘲笑ひ、或人々は、我等の事に就きて復汝に聴かん、と云へり。
And having heard of a rising again of the dead, some, indeed, were mocking, but others said, 'We will hear thee again concerning this;'
33 斯てパウロは、彼等の中より立去りしが、
and so Paul went forth from the midst of them,
34 之に從ひて信仰せる者數人あり。其中にアレオパグの裁判官ジオニジオ、ダマリスと云へる婦人、其他尚ありき。
and certain men having cleaved to him, did believe, among whom [is] also Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman, by name Damaris, and others with them.
