コロサイ人への手紙 2
1 第二項 偽教師に對する論難 我は我が汝等とラオジケアに在る人々と、又未だ我肉身の顔を見ざる一切の人との為に、戰ふ事の如何ばかりなるかを、汝等の知らん事を欲す。
I want you to know how hard I'm working for you, and for those at Laodicea—in fact for all those who haven't met me personally—
2 是其心慰められ、愛を以て繋がれ、全き智識の諸の富に満たされて、父にて在す神、及びキリスト、イエズスの奥義を識るに至らん為にして、
so that you may be encouraged. May you be bound together in love, experiencing the great benefit of being completely sure in your understanding, for this is what the true knowledge of God brings. May you know the revealed mystery of God, which is Christ!
3 智識及び學識の諸の寳、彼に隠れて存すればなり。
In him you can discover all the rich wisdom and knowledge of God.
4 我が之を言ふは、誰も巧みなる談話を以て汝等を欺く事なからん為なり。
I'm telling you this so that no one will fool you by spinning you a tale.
5 蓋我肉體にては不在なれども、精神にては汝等と共に居り、汝等の秩序とキリストに於る信仰の堅固なるとを見て之を喜ぶ。
Even though I'm not physically there with you, I'm with you in spirit. I'm so happy to see the way you stick together and how firm you are in your trust in Christ.
6 然れば汝等主イエズス、キリストを承けしが如く之に在りて歩み、
Just as you accepted Christ Jesus as Lord, go on following him,
7 之に根ざし之が上に建てられて、學びしが如く信仰に固まり、之に成長して感謝し奉れ。
grounded in him and built up by him. May your trust in him continue to grow strong, following what you were taught, full of gratitude to God.
8 空しき虚言なる哲學を以て誰にも欺かれざる様注意せよ、其は人間の傳と世の小學とに由るものにして、キリストに由るものに非ず。
Watch out that nobody enslaves you through their philosophy and worthless delusions, following human traditions and concepts of this world, and not following Christ.
9 蓋神性は殘なく實體的にキリストの中に充満ちて宿れるなり。
For the fullness of God's divine nature lives in Christ in bodily form,
10 彼は諸の権勢及び能力の頭にて在す、汝等之に在りて充満し、
and you have been made full in him. He is supreme over every ruler and authority.
11 又之に於て割禮を受けたり。其割禮は手にて為せるものに非ずして、肉身を取除く所のキリストの割禮なり。
You were “circumcised” in him but not by human hands. You have been set free from sinful human nature by the “circumcision” Christ performed.
12 汝等は洗禮を以て彼と共に葬られ、又彼を死者の中より復活せしめ給ひし神の大能を信仰せるを以て、彼によりて復活したるなり。
You were buried with him in baptism, and you were raised with him through your trust in what God did by raising him from the dead.
13 斯て汝等、罪と肉身の無割禮とによりて死したる者なりしに、神は汝等に悉く罪を赦して、キリストと共に更に活かし給ひ、
And even though you were dead because of your sins and being physically “uncircumcised,” he brought you to life together with him. He has forgiven us all our sins.
14 我等に迫りて我等に反せる誡の書を取消し、之を中間より取去りて十字架に釘け、
He wiped out the record of our debts according to the Law that was written down against us; he took away this barrier by nailing it to the cross.
15 [堕落の]権勢及び能力等を剥ぎて敢て之を擒にし、キリストの御身に於て公然是等に打勝ち給へり。
He stripped away the power of spiritual rulers and authorities, and having publicly revealed what they were truly like, he led them captive behind him in victory.
16 然れば食物、或は飲物、或は祭日、或は朔日、或は安息日に関しては、誰にもあれ汝等を咎むべからず、
So don't let anyone criticize you for what you eat or what you drink, or regarding which religious festival, new moon ritual, or ceremonial sabbaths you choose to observe.
17 是等の事は後に在るべき事の影にして、本體はキリストなり。
These are just a shadow of what was to come, for the physical reality is Christ.
18 誰にもあれ、故に謙遜[を装ひ]、天使崇拝を以て汝等の褒美を取るべからず。斯る人は見ざる事に立入りて徒に肉的思念に誇り、
Don't let anyone cheat you out of your prize by insisting you have to beat yourself, or worship angels. They think they are better than anyone else because of visions they say they've had, and become ridiculously conceited in their sinful minds.
19 頭たる者に属せざるなり。全體は此頭よりしてこそ、関節及び繊維を以て組立てられ且聯りて、神によりて成長するなれ。
Such people are not connected to the head that directs the body, nourished and joined together through the body's sinews and muscles. As the body is united together it grows the way God wants it to grow.
20 汝等若キリストと共に此世の小學に就きて死したる者ならば、何ぞ尚世に在るが如く身を掟に服せしむるや。
If you died with Christ to the religious demands that this world insists upon, why would you make yourself subject to such demands as if you were still part of this world?
21 謂ゆる触るる勿れ、味ふ勿れ、扱ふ勿れの類は、
Things like: don't handle that, don't taste that, don't touch that!
22 皆用ふるに随ひて盡くるものにして、人間の誡と教とによれり。
These commands refer to things that don't last since they're used up, and they're based on man-made requirements and teachings.
23 彼の崇拝、謙遜、身を吝まざる點に於ては、道理めきたるものなれども、其實は尊き事なく、唯肉慾を飽かしむるのみ。
Such rules may make some kind of sense to those who practice self-centered piety, who are so proud of being humble, and who “mortify the body;” but in reality they don't help at all in dealing with sinful desires.
