ヘブル人への手紙 12
1 第三款 既往の教訓を信者の現状に應用す 然れば我等も、斯く夥しき證人の雲に圍まれたれば、一切の荷と纏へる罪とを卸して、
So then, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we too must run with endurance the race that is set before us, laying aside every impediment and the sin that so easily ensnares,
2 我等の信仰の指導者に在し完成者に在すイエズスに鑑みつつ、忍耐を以て我等に備はれる勝負に走るべし。即ちイエズスは曾て、己に備はれる喜に代へて、辱を厭はず、十字架を忍び給ひ、而して神の玉座の右に坐し給ふ。
looking unto Jesus, the Founder and Perfecter of the Faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured a cross, scorning its ignominy, and took His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 汝等倦みて己が心の弱らざらん為に、己に對する惡人のさしも甚しかりし反抗を忍び給ひし者を回想せよ。
Do consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, so as not to grow weary, losing courage in your souls.
4 蓋汝等の罪に對ひて戰ふに、未だ血を流す程に抵抗せし事なし。
In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed.
5 汝等は又、子に於るが如くに告げらるる勧を忘れたり。曰く、「我子よ、主の懲を疎畧にすることなく、之に懲らされ奉る時倦む事勿れ、
And you have forgotten the exhortation that instructs you as sons: “My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, nor lose heart when you are reproved by Him;
6 主は其寵み給ふ人を懲らし、総て子として受け給ふ者を鞭ち給へばなり」と。
because whom the Lord loves He chastens, yes scourges every son whom He accepts.”
7 汝等懲を忍べ、神の汝等に對し給ふは、恰も子等に於るが如し。誰か父に懲らされざる子あらん、
If you are enduring discipline, God is dealing with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not discipline?
8 汝等若凡ての人の受くる懲の外に在らば、是私生児にして正子に非ざるべし。
But if you are without discipline (something everyone undergoes), then you are illegitimate and not sons.
9 且我等は肉身の父に懲らされて、尚之を尊敬しつつありしものを、况や霊の父には歸服して生命を得べきに非ずや。
Furthermore, we have had our human fathers as correctors and respected them. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
10 肉身の父等は、少き日數の間に心の儘に我等を懲らしたるに、霊の父の懲らし給ふは、己が聖徳を蒙らしめて我等を益し給はん為なり。
Now they indeed disciplined us during a short period as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, so that we may partake of His holiness.
11 総て懲は其當時に在りては、喜ばしく見えず、悲しきが如くなれども、後には之を以て鍛錬せられたる人に、義の平穏なる果を結ぶものなり。
Now no discipline seems to be pleasant at the time, but painful; yet afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised by it.
12 然れば汝等、萎えたる手、弱りたる膝を立てよ、
Therefore strengthen the listless hands and weakened knees,
13 誰も足萎えて踏外す事なく、寧醫されん為に己の足踏を直くせよ。
and make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame not be turned aside but rather be healed.
14 汝等凡ての人と和合し、聖徳を追求せよ、之なくては誰も主を見奉る事を得じ。
Pursue peace with all, and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord;
15 汝等注意して、一人も恩寵より退く事なく、如何なる苦き根にもあれ、生出でて妨を為し、多くの人を汚すことなからしめ、
taking care that no one come short of the grace of God, that no root of bitterness springing up cause trouble and thereby many be defiled,
16 一人たりとも、食物の為に長子権を売りしエザウの如く、私通者不敬者と成る事なからしめよ。
that no one be a fornicator, or worldly like Esau, who in exchange for one meal gave up his birthright.
17 蓋彼が、後に祝福を継がん事を望みしも退けられ、涙を以て回復を求めたれど其餘地を得ざりしは、汝等の知るべき所なり。
Because you do indeed know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing he was rejected; he found no place for a change of mind, though he sought it diligently with tears.
18 汝等の近づけるは、触れ得べき山、燃ゆる火、黒雲、暗黒、暴風、
Now you have not come to a touchable mountain burning with fire, to blackness and darkness, to tempest;
19 溂叭の音、又言の聲には非ず。彼聲を聞きし人々は、言の己に語られざらん事を願へり。
to a trumpet blast and spoken words such that those who heard begged that no further word be spoken to them
20 蓋獣すらも、山に触れなば石を擲たるべしと命ぜられたるを忍び得ず、
(because they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain it must be stoned!”
21 見ゆる物甚だ恐ろしくして、モイゼも、我恐怖慄けり、と言へり。
and the sight was so terrifying that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling!”);
22 然るに汝等の近づきたるは、シヨンの山と、活き給へる神の都なる天のエルザレムと、億萬の天使の喜ばしき集會と、
but you have come to Mount Zion, even to the City of the Living God, Heavenly Jerusalem; to myriads of angels in festal gathering,
23 天に其名を記されたる長子等の教會と、萬民の審判者に在す神と、全うせられし義人等の霊と、
to an assembly of firstborn ones who have been enrolled in heaven; to God, Judge of all; to the spirits of the perfected righteous;
24 新約の仲介者に在すイエズスと、アベルの血に優りて能く言ふ血の沃がるる事と是なり。
to Jesus, Mediator of a new covenant, and to a blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.
25 汝等慎みて、言ひ給ふを否むこと勿れ。蓋彼等は地上に言ひ給へるを否みて迯れざりしなれば、况て天より言ひ給ふを退くる我等の迯るべけんや。
See to it that you not refuse Him who speaks. Because if they did not escape who refused Him who gave divine warning on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from Him who warns from Heaven!
26 彼時は其聲地を動かしたりしに、今は約して曰はく、「我唯に地をのみならず天をも尚一度動かさん」と。
Then His voice shook the earth, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth but also the heaven.”
27 斯の如く「尚一度」と曰へるは、震動せざる事物の永存せん為に、震動せし事物の、造られたるものとして廃るべきを示し給ふなり。
Now the ‘yet once more’ clearly indicates the removal of the things being shaken (created things), so that the unshakables may remain.
28 然れば震動せざる國を受けたるが故に、我等は感謝し奉りて、御意に適ふ様、恐れ畏みて神に事へ奉るべし。
Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us hold on to the grace by which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear;
29 是我等の神は焼盡す火にて在せばなり。
because our God is indeed a consuming fire.
