使徒の働き 7
1 第三 ステファノの説教 時に司祭長、是等の事果して然るか、と云ひしかば、
Then the high priest said: Are these things so?
2 ステファノ云ひけるは、聞かれよ、兄弟にして父たる人々、我等の父アブラハム、カランに住居するに先だちて、メソポタミアに在りし時、光榮の神之に現れて、
Who said: Ye men, brethren, and fathers, hear. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charan.
3 曰ひけるは、汝國を去り親族を離れて、我が示さん地に至れ、と。
And said to him: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
4 斯てアブラハムカルデア人の地を出でてカランに住みしが、其父の死後、神は彼處より、汝等が現に住める地に彼を移し給ひ、
Then he went out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charan. And from thence, after his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein you now dwell.
5 足踏立つる許の地だに、其地にては遺産を賜はざりき。然れど其地を所有として之に與へ、其時は未だ子あらざりしも、後を子孫に與へん事を約し給ひ、
And he gave him no inheritance in it; no, not the pace of a foot: but he promised to give it him in possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
6 神之に曰ひけるは、「其子孫は他國に住み、人々之を奴隷と為し、四百年の間虐待せん、
And God said to him: That his seed should sojourn in a strange country, and that they should bring them under bondage, and treat them evil four hundred years.
7 然れども我彼等の仕へし所の國民を審くべし、斯て後彼等其國を出でて、此處にて我を禮拝せん、と主曰へり」、と。
And the nation which they shall serve will I judge, said the Lord; and after these things they shall go out, and shall serve me in this place.
8 アブラハム尚割禮の契約を賜はりしかば、イザアクを生みて八日目に之に割禮を施し、イザアクはヤコブを生み、ヤコブ十二人の太祖を生めり。
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision, and so he begot Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begot Jacob; and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.
9 太祖等妬みてヨゼフをエジプトに売りたれど、神之と共に在して、
And the patriarchs, through envy, sold Joseph into Egypt; and God was with him,
10 凡ての患難より救出し、エジプト國王ファラオンより寵愛を得させ、且智恵を賜ひしに由り、ファラオンはエジプトと己が家とを挙げて之に宰らしめたり。
And delivered him out of all his tribulations: and he gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharao, the king of Egypt; and he appointed him governor over Egypt, and over all his house.
11 然るに全エジプト及カナアンに飢饉と大いなる災難と起り、我等の先祖食物を求め得ざりしに、
Now there came a famine upon all Egypt and Chanaan, and great tribulation; and our fathers found no food.
12 ヤコブエジプトに麦あるを聞きて、先我等の先祖等を遣はし、
But when Jacob had heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent our fathers first:
13 次の度にヨゼフ其兄弟に知られ、其族はファラオンに知られたり。
And at the second time, Joseph was known by his brethren, and his kindred was made known to Pharao.
14 ヨゼフ人を遣はして、父なるヤコブ及び其家族、総て七十五人を呼來らししにより、
And Joseph sending, called thither Jacob, his father, and all his kindred, seventy-five souls.
15 ヤコブエジプトに下り、其身も我等の先祖等も、彼處に死して、
So Jacob went down into Egypt; and he died, and our fathers.
16 シケムに送られ、アブラハムが曾てシケムに於てヘモルの子等より銀銭を以て買受けし墓地に葬られたり。
And they were translated into Sichem, and were laid in the sepulchre, that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Hemor, the son of Sichem.
17 斯て神のアブラハムに誓ひ給ひし約束の時近づきしに、民の數増して大いにエジプトに繁殖したれば、
And when the time of the promise drew near, which God had promised to Abraham, the people increased, and were multiplied in Egypt,
18 ヨゼフを知らざる他の王起るに及びて、
Till another king arose in Egypt, who knew not Joseph.
19 惡計を以て我等の種族に當り、我等の先祖を悩まして、其生子の存へざらん為に之を棄てしめたり。
This same dealing craftily with our race, afflicted our fathers, that they should expose their children, to the end they might not be kept alive.
20 モイゼ此時に當りて生れたりしが、神に美しくして父の家に育てらるる事三月、
At the same time was Moses born, and he was acceptable to God: who was nourished three months in his father’s house.
21 然て遂に棄てられしをファラオンの女取挙げて、己が子として養育したり。
And when he was exposed, Pharao’s daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
22 斯てモイゼはエジプト人の學術を悉く教へられ、言行共に力ありしが、
And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians; and he was mighty in his words and in his deeds.
23 満四十歳の時、己が兄弟たるイスラエルの子孫を顧みんとの心起り、
And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.
24 或人の害せらるるを見て之を防ぎ、エジプト人を討ちて被害者の讐を返せり。
And when he had seen one of them suffer wrong, he defended him; and striking the Egyptian, he avenged him who suffered the injury.
25 モイゼは兄弟等が、神の我手によりて己等を救ひ給ふべきを必ず悟るならんと思ひしに、彼等之を悟らざりき。
And he thought that his brethren understood that God by his hand would save them; but they understood it not.
26 翌日彼等の相争へる處に顕れて和睦を勧め、人々よ、汝等は兄弟なるに何ぞ相害するや、と云ひしかば、
And the day following, he shewed himself to them when they were at strife; and would have reconciled them in peace, saying: Men, ye are brethren; why hurt you one another?
27 其近き者を害せる人、之を押退けて云ひけるは、誰か汝を立てて我等の司とし判官とせしぞ、
But he that did the injury to his neighbour thrust him away, saying: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge over us?
28 汝は昨日エジプト人を殺しし如く我を殺さんとするか、と。
What, wilt thou kill me, as thou didst yesterday kill the Egyptian?
29 此言によりモイゼ脱走してマヂアン地方に旅人と成り、彼處にて二人の子を挙げたり。
And Moses fled upon this word, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begot two sons.
30 四十年を経てシナイ山の荒野に於て、燃ゆる茨の焔の中に天使之に現れければ、
And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the desert of mount Sina, an angel in a flame of fire in a bush.
31 モイゼ見て其見る所を怪しみ、見届けんとして近づきけるに、主の聲ありて曰く、
And Moses seeing it, wondered at the sight. And as he drew near to view it, the voice of the Lord came unto him, saying:
32 我は汝の先祖等の神、即ちアブラハムの神、イザアクの神、ヤコブの神なり、と。モイゼ戰慄きて、敢て注視ず、
I am the God of thy fathers; the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses being terrified, durst not behold.
33 主之に曰はく、足の履物を脱げ、汝の立てる所は聖地なればなり、
And the Lord said to him: Loose the shoes from thy feet, for the place wherein thou standest, is holy ground.
34 我はエジプトに在る我民の難を顧み、其嘆を聴きて彼等を救はん為に降れり、卒來れ、我汝をエジプトに遣はさん、と。
Seeing I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, and I will send thee into Egypt.
35 斯て彼等が、誰か汝を立てて我等の司とし判官と為ししぞ、と云ひて拒みし此モイゼをば、神は茨の中に現れし天使の手を以て、司とし救人として遣はし給ひしなり。
This Moses, whom they refused, saying: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge? him God sent to be prince and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
36 モイゼ彼等を導き出して、エジプトの地に紅海に又荒野に、四十年の間奇蹟と徴とを行ひしが、
He brought them out, doing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the desert forty years.
37 是ぞイスラエルの子等に向ひて、神は汝等の中より我如き一人の預言者を起し給はん、汝等之に聴くべし、と云ひし其モイゼなる。
This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel: A prophet shall God raise up to you of your own brethren, as myself: him shall you hear.
38 是即ち曾て荒野に會せし時、シナイ山にて共に語りし天使、及び我等の先祖と共に在りし人、我等に授くべき生命の言を授かりし人なり。
This is he that was in the church in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on mount Sina, and with our fathers; who received the words of life to give unto us.
39 我等の先祖は之に從ふことを拒み、却て彼を斥けて心をエジプトに転じ、
Whom our fathers would not obey; but thrust him away, and in their hearts turned back into Egypt,
40 アアロンに謂へらく、汝は我等に先んずべき神々を我等の為に造れ、蓋我等をエジプトの地より導き出しし彼モイゼに就きては、其如何になりしかを知らず、と。
Saying to Aaron: Make us gods to go before us. For as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.
41 斯て彼等其時に當りて犢を造り、偶像に犠牲を献げ、己が手の業によりて喜びたりしかば、
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifices to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
42 神は彼等を眷み給はず、其天軍に事ふるに任せ給へり。即ち預言者等の書に録したるが如し、[曰く]「イスラエルの家よ、汝等荒野に於て、四十年の間犠牲と供物とを我に献げしか、
And God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, as it is written in the books of the prophets: Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me for forty years, in the desert, O house of Israel?
43 汝等はモロクの幕屋、及び汝等の神とせるレンファの星形、即ち禮拝せんとて自ら造れる像を舁廻れり、然れば我汝等をバビロンの彼方に移すべし」と。
And you took unto you the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Rempham, figures which you made to adore them. And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
44 抑證明の幕屋は我等の先祖と共に荒野に在りて、神がモイゼに語りて、自ら見たりし式に從ひて之を造れ、と命じ給ひし如くなりき。
The tabernacle of the testimony was with our fathers in the desert, as God ordained for them, speaking to Moses, that he should make it according to the form which he had seen.
45 斯て異邦人、即ち神が我等の先祖の面前に追払い給ひし民の國を占有せし時に、我等の先祖は此幕屋を取りて、ヨズエと共に之を携へ入りて、ダヴィドの時代に至りしが、
Which also our fathers receiving, brought in with Jesus, into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David.
46 ダヴィドは神の御前に寵を得て、ヤコブの神の為に住處を設けん事を願ひければ、
Who found grace before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
47 サロモンは神の家を建てたり。
But Solomon built him a house.
48 然れど最高き者は、手にて造れる所に住み給ふ者に非ず、
Yet the most High dwelleth not in houses made by hands, as the prophet saith:
49 即ち「主曰はく、天は我座なり、地は我足台なり、汝等如何なる家をか我に造らん、我が息む所は何處なるか、
Heaven is my throne, and the earth my footstool. What house will you build me? saith the Lord; or what is the place of my resting?
50 是皆我手の造りたるものならずや」と預言者の云へるが如し。
Hath not my hand made all these things?
51 項強くして心にも耳にも割禮なき者よ、何時も聖霊に逆らふこと、汝等の先祖の為しし如く、汝等も亦然す、
You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do you also.
52 汝等の先祖は、預言者の中の何れをか迫害せざりし、彼等は義者の來臨を預言せる人々を殺したるに、汝等は今此義者をば売り且殺したる者となれり。
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them who foretold of the coming of the Just One; of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers:
53 又天使によりて律法を受けしも、汝等は之を守らざりき、と[述べたり]。
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
54 第四 ステファノの最期 此等の事を聞きて、人々の胸は裂くるが如く、ステファノに向ひて切歯すれども、
Now hearing these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed with their teeth at him.
55 彼は聖霊に満ちたれば、天を仰ぎて、神の光榮と神の右に立ち給へるイエズスとを見て、
But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looking up steadfastly to heaven, saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God.
56 云ひけるは、看よ、我天開けて、人の子が神の右に立ち給へるを見奉る、と。
And he said: Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
57 其時彼等耳を覆ひ、聲高く叫びつつ一同に撃ちかかり、
And they crying out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and with one accord ran violently upon him.
58 ステファノを市街より追出して石を擲ちしが、立會人はサウロと云へる若者の足下に己が上衣を置けり。
And casting him forth without the city, they stoned him; and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man, whose name was Saul.
59 斯て彼等が石を擲つ程に、ステファノ祈入りて云ひけるは、主イエズス我魂を受け給へ、と。
And they stoned Stephen, invoking, and saying: Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
60 又跪きつつ聲高く呼はりて云ひけるは、主よ、此罪を彼等に負はせ給ふこと勿れ、と。斯く言終りて主に眠りけるが、サウロは彼の死刑に賛成したりき。
And falling on his knees, he cried with a loud voice, saying: Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep in the Lord.
