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THE LAST TEMPLE DISCOURSE
寺院での最後の講話
1955 175:0.1 SHORTLY after two o’clock on this Tuesday afternoon, Jesus, accompanied by eleven apostles, Joseph of Arimathea, the thirty Greeks, and certain other disciples, arrived at the temple and began the delivery of his last address in the courts of the sacred edifice. This discourse was intended to be his last appeal to the Jewish people and the final indictment of his vehement enemies and would-be destroyers—the scribes, Pharisees, Sadducees, and the chief rulers of Israel. Throughout the forenoon the various groups had had an opportunity to question Jesus; this afternoon no one asked him a question.
2015 175:0.1 この火曜日の午後2時直後、11人の使徒、アリマセアのヨセフ、30人のギリシア人と特定の他の弟子を伴ったイエスは、寺院に到着し、神聖な建物の中庭での最後の演説を始めた。この講話は、ユダヤ民族への最後の訴えとして、そして猛烈な敵や、イエスを滅ぼそうと志す者達—筆記者、パリサイ派、サドカイ派、イスラエルの主っだった指導者達—への最終的な告発として意図されていた。午前を通して、様々な集団がイエスに質問する機会があった。この午後は、誰も彼に質問をしなかった。
1955 175:0.2 As the Master began to speak, the temple court was quiet and orderly. The money-changers and the merchandisers had not dared again to enter the temple since Jesus and the aroused multitude had driven them out the previous day. Before beginning the discourse, Jesus tenderly looked down upon this audience which was so soon to hear his farewell public address of mercy to mankind coupled with his last denunciation of the false teachers and the bigoted rulers of the Jews.
2015 175:0.2 あるじが話し始めると、寺院の中庭は静かで整然としていた。両替商と商人達は、前日イエスと興奮した群衆に追い出されたので、敢えて寺院には再び入っていなかった。イエスは、偽教師への最後の告発と頑迷なユダヤの支配者達への最後の公然たる非難とともに、人類への慈悲を込めた公への送別の演説をそれほど速く聞くこととなったこの聴衆への講話の開始前に優しく見下ろした
1. THE DISCOURSE
1. 講話
1955 175:1.1 “This long time have I been with you, going up and down in the land proclaiming the Father’s love for the children of men, and many have seen the light and, by faith, have entered into the kingdom of heaven. In connection with this teaching and preaching the Father has done many wonderful works, even to the resurrection of the dead. Many sick and afflicted have been made whole because they believed; but all of this proclamation of truth and healing of disease has not opened the eyes of those who refuse to see light, those who are determined to reject this gospel of the kingdom.
1955 175:1.2 “In every manner consistent with doing my Father’s will, I and my apostles have done our utmost to live in peace with our brethren, to conform with the reasonable requirements of the laws of Moses and the traditions of Israel. We have persistently sought peace, but the leaders of Israel will not have it. By rejecting the truth of God and the light of heaven, they are aligning themselves on the side of error and darkness. There cannot be peace between light and darkness, between life and death, between truth and error.
2015 175:1.2 「私と使徒達は、父の意志の実行と一致してあらゆる方法において、我々の同胞と平穏に暮らすために、つまりモーシェの法とイスラエルの伝統の道理に適った必要条件に適合するために、最善を尽くしてきた。我々は平和を持続的に求めてきたが、イスラエルの指導者達はそれを得ることはないであろう。神の真実と天の光を拒絶することにより、かれらは、自分たちの誤りと暗黒に加担している。平和が、光と暗闇の間、生と死の間、真実と誤りの間にあるはずがない。
1955 175:1.3 “Many of you have dared to believe my teachings and have already entered into the joy and liberty of the consciousness of sonship with God. And you will bear me witness that I have offered this same sonship with God to all the Jewish nation, even to these very men who now seek my destruction. And even now would my Father receive these blinded teachers and these hypocritical leaders if they would only turn to him and accept his mercy. Even now it is not too late for this people to receive the word of heaven and to welcome the Son of Man.
2015 175:1.3 「あなた方の多くは、私の教えを思い切って信じ、すでに神との息子関係の意識の喜びと自由へと入っていった。そして、私は、全ユダヤ国家に、いま私の破滅を求める他ならぬこれらの男性達にさえ、神とのこの同じ息子関係を提供したということを証言するであろう。そして、今でさえ、彼らが、父に振り向いてその慈悲を受け入れさえすれば、私の父は、これらの目をくらんだ教師と偽善の支配者達を迎えるであろう。今でも、この人々が、天国の言葉を受け入れ、人の息子を歓迎することに遅過ぎることはない。
1955 175:1.4 “My Father has long dealt in mercy with this people. Generation after generation have we sent our prophets to teach and warn them, and generation after generation have they killed these heaven-sent teachers. And now do your willful high priests and stubborn rulers go right on doing this same thing. As Herod brought about the death of John, you likewise now make ready to destroy the Son of Man.
2015 175:1.4 「私の父は、長い間慈悲をもってこの民族を扱ってきた。代々、我々は、教えて警告するために予言者達を送り出し、代々、かれらは、この天与の教師達を殺してきた。そして、今度は、強情な高位の司祭と頑固な支配者達が、この同じことをし続けている。ヘロデが、ヨハネの死をもたらしたように、あなた方は、いま人の息子を滅ぼす準備をしている。
1955 175:1.5 “As long as there is a chance that the Jews will turn to my Father and seek salvation, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will keep his hands of mercy outstretched toward you; but when you have once filled up your cup of impenitence, and when once you have finally rejected my Father’s mercy, this nation will be left to its own counsels, and it shall speedily come to an inglorious end. This people was called to become the light of the world, to show forth the spiritual glory of a God-knowing race, but you have so far departed from the fulfillment of your divine privileges that your leaders are about to commit the supreme folly of all the ages in that they are on the verge of finally rejecting the gift of God to all men and for all ages—the revelation of the love of the Father in heaven for all his creatures on earth.
2015 175:1.5 「ユダヤ人が私の父の方に向き直り、救済を求めるという見込みがある限り、アブラーハーム、イサク、ヤコブの神は、あなた方に向かって慈悲の手を一杯に伸ばし続けるであろう。しかし、あなた方が、一旦焦燥感で杯を満たしてしまうと、一旦父の慈悲を拒絶してしまうと、この国家は、自らの思いのままの状態におかれ、それは、速やかに不名誉に終わるであろう。この民族は、世界の光になるために、神を知る民族の精霊的な栄光を示すために呼ばれたが、あなたの指導者達は、すべての人間への、またすべての時代のための神の贈り物—地球のすべての被創造物のための天の父の愛の顕示—を遂に拒絶する間際にいるので、すべての時代を通じて最高の愚行を犯そうとする程に神の特権の遂行からは全く遠退いてしまった。
1955 175:1.6 “And when you do once reject this revelation of God to man, the kingdom of heaven shall be given to other peoples, to those who will receive it with joy and gladness. In the name of the Father who sent me, I solemnly warn you that you are about to lose your position in the world as the standard-bearers of eternal truth and the custodians of the divine law. I am just now offering you your last chance to come forward and repent, to signify your intention to seek God with all your hearts and to enter, like little children and by sincere faith, into the security and salvation of the kingdom of heaven.
2015 175:1.6 「そして、あなたが人に対する神のこの顕示を一度拒絶するとき、天の王国は、他の民族に、嬉々としてそれを受け入れる人々に与えられるのである。私を送った父の名において、あなたが不朽の真実の旗手として、また神性の法の管理人として世界での地位を失いかけているということを厳しく警告しておく。幼子のように、そして誠実な信仰によって、あなたが、天の王国の保安と救済に入るために真心をこめて神を求めるというあなたの意志を示すために、私は、たった今、あなたが、進み出てきて悔悟する最後の機会を申し出ているのである。
1955 175:1.7 “My Father has long worked for your salvation, and I came down to live among you and personally show you the way. Many of both the Jews and the Samaritans, and even the gentiles, have believed the gospel of the kingdom, but those who should be first to come forward and accept the light of heaven have steadfastly refused to believe the revelation of the truth of God—God revealed in man and man uplifted to God.
2015 175:1.7 「私の父はあなたの救済のために長く働いたし、私は、あなたの間で生きて、じかに道を示すために下りてきた。多くのユダヤ人とサマリア人双方、さらには非ユダヤ人さえが、王国の福音を信じたが、最初に進み出て、天の光を受け入れるために最初であるべき人々は、神の真実の顕示—人の中に明らかにされる神と神に向かって高められる人—を信じることを断固として拒否してきた。
1955 175:1.8 “This afternoon my apostles stand here before you in silence, but you shall soon hear their voices ringing out with the call to salvation and with the urge to unite with the heavenly kingdom as the sons of the living God. And now I call to witness these, my disciples and believers in the gospel of the kingdom, as well as the unseen messengers by their sides, that I have once more offered Israel and her rulers deliverance and salvation. But you all behold how the Father’s mercy is slighted and how the messengers of truth are rejected. Nevertheless, I admonish you that these scribes and Pharisees still sit in Moses’ seat, and therefore, until the Most Highs who rule in the kingdoms of men shall finally overthrow this nation and destroy the place of these rulers, I bid you co-operate with these elders in Israel. You are not required to unite with them in their plans to destroy the Son of Man, but in everything related to the peace of Israel you are to be subject to them. In all these matters do whatsoever they bid you and observe the essentials of the law but do not pattern after their evil works. Remember, this is the sin of these rulers: They say that which is good, but they do it not. You well know how these leaders bind heavy burdens on your shoulders, burdens grievous to bear, and that they will not lift as much as one finger to help you bear these weighty burdens. They have oppressed you with ceremonies and enslaved you by traditions.
2015 175:1.8 「この午後、私の使徒は、あなた方の前のここに黙って立っているが、あなた方は、救済への呼び掛けと、生ける神の息子としてすばらしい王国と結合するための督促に鳴り響く彼らの声をまもなく聞くであろう。そして、私は、イスラエルとその支配者達に救出と救済を申し出たということを、彼らの側にいる見えない使者達だけではなく、私の弟子と王国の福音の信者のこれらの者が、目撃するように、いま一度呼び掛ける。しかし、あなた方は皆、父の慈悲がいかに軽んじられたり、また真実の使者達がいかに拒絶されるかをみる。にもかかわらず、これらの筆記者とパリサイ派は、モーシェの席にまだ座っていると、私はあなた方に注意しておき、したがって、私は、人の王国で統治するいと高きものが、最後にはこの国を滅ぼし、これらの支配者の場所を破壊するまで、あなた方が、イスラエルのこれらの長老に協力することを命じる。あなた方は、人の息子を滅ぼす計画への結束を要求されてはいないが、イスラエルの平和に関する全てにおいては、彼等の影響を受けることになっている。これらの事柄全てにおいて、彼等が、あなた方に命じることは何でもして、法の骨子を守りなさい、だが、彼等の悪の働きを真似てはならない。覚えていなさい。これは、支配者達の罪である。かれらは、それを良いと言うが、実践をしない。あなた方は、これらの指導者が、いかにあなた方の肩にきつい重荷を負わせているか、その上、かれらは、これらの重荷を担うあなた方を助けるために1本の指といえどもそれに触れようとはしないことをよく知っている。かれらは、式典であなた方を押さえつけ、伝統によって奴隷にした。[3][4][5]
1955 175:1.9 “Furthermore, these self-centered rulers delight in doing their good works so that they will be seen by men. They make broad their phylacteries and enlarge the borders of their official robes. They crave the chief places at the feasts and demand the chief seats in the synagogues. They covet laudatory salutations in the market places and desire to be called rabbi by all men. And even while they seek all this honor from men, they secretly lay hold of widows’ houses and take profit from the services of the sacred temple. For a pretense these hypocrites make long prayers in public and give alms to attract the notice of their fellows.
1955 175:1.10 “While you should honor your rulers and reverence your teachers, you should call no man Father in the spiritual sense, for there is one who is your Father, even God. Neither should you seek to lord it over your brethren in the kingdom. Remember, I have taught you that he who would be greatest among you should become the server of all. If you presume to exalt yourselves before God, you will certainly be humbled; but whoso truly humbles himself will surely be exalted. Seek in your daily lives, not self-glorification, but the glory of God. Intelligently subordinate your own wills to the will of the Father in heaven.
2015 175:1.10 「指配者を敬い、教師に敬意を表すべきではあるが、精霊的な意味合いにおいては、いかなる人をも父と呼ぶべきではない、なぜなら、あなた方の父はただ一人であり、神だけであるのだから。あなた方は、王国で、同胞に威張ろうとすべきでもない。心しなさい、私は、あなた方の中で最も偉大な者が、すべて人の奉仕者になならなければならないとあなた方に教えてきた。神の前で自分自身を高めるならば、あなた方は、確実に卑しめられる。しかし、本当に、謙遜である者は誰でも、確実に高められる。あなた方の日々の生活において、自己称賛ではなく、神の栄光を求めなさい。賢く天の父の意志に自身の意志を従属させなさい。[7][8][9]
1955 175:1.11 “Mistake not my words. I bear no malice toward these chief priests and rulers who even now seek my destruction; I have no ill will for these scribes and Pharisees who reject my teachings. I know that many of you believe in secret, and I know you will openly profess your allegiance to the kingdom when my hour comes. But how will your rabbis justify themselves since they profess to talk with God and then presume to reject and destroy him who comes to reveal the Father to the worlds?
2015 175:1.11 「私の言葉を間違えてはいけない。私は、私の破滅を今でも求めているこれらの司祭長と支配者に対して悪意を抱いてはいない。私には、私の教えを拒絶するこれらの筆記者とパリサイ派に何の悪意もない。私は、あなた方の多くが秘かに信じるということ、私の時間が来れば、あなた方が、王国への忠誠を公然と表明することが分かっている。しかし、あなた方の律法学者は、神と話すと公言し、それから、世界に父を明らかにする者を敢えて拒絶し、滅ぼすと主張する以上、いかに自分自身を正当化するのであろうか。
1955 175:1.12 “Woe upon you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You would shut the doors of the kingdom of heaven against sincere men because they happen to be unlearned in the ways of your teaching. You refuse to enter the kingdom and at the same time do everything within your power to prevent all others from entering. You stand with your backs to the doors of salvation and fight with all who would enter therein.
1955 175:1.16 “Woe upon you who dissimulate when you take an oath! You are tricksters since you teach that a man may swear by the temple and break his oath, but that whoso swears by the gold in the temple must remain bound. You are all fools and blind. You are not even consistent in your dishonesty, for which is the greater, the gold or the temple which has supposedly sanctified the gold? You also teach that, if a man swears by the altar, it is nothing; but that, if one swears by the gift that is upon the altar, then shall he be held as a debtor. Again are you blind to the truth, for which is the greater, the gift or the altar which sanctifies the gift? How can you justify such hypocrisy and dishonesty in the sight of the God of heaven?
2015 175:1.16 「忌まわしいものだ、誓いを立てるときに偽り隠す者達。あなた方は、人は、寺院に誓いをし、その誓いを破ることを許すが、誰であろうと寺院の黄金をさして誓う者は、その誓いを果たさなければならないと教えるので、あなた方は詐欺師である。あなた方は、全て愚かで盲目である。自分の不正直さに矛盾さえしている、なぜなら、黄金と伝えられるところでは黄金を浄める寺院とではどちらが大切なのか。あなた方は、人が祭壇に誓うならば、それは何でもないと、だが、祭壇にあるり物に誓うならば、そこで債務者として留めるられるとも教える。あなた方は、贈り物より贈り物を浄める祭壇の方が大切であるのに、又もや、真実が分からないのか。天の神の目にどうしたらそのような偽善と不正直を正当化することができるのか。[15]
1955 175:1.17 “Woe upon you, scribes and Pharisees and all other hypocrites who make sure that they tithe mint, anise, and cumin and at the same time disregard the weightier matters of the law—faith, mercy, and judgment! Within reason, the one you ought to have done but not to have left the other undone. You are truly blind guides and dumb teachers; you strain out the gnat and swallow the camel.
1955 175:1.18 “Woe upon you, scribes, Pharisees, and hypocrites! for you are scrupulous to cleanse the outside of the cup and the platter, but within there remains the filth of extortion, excesses, and deception. You are spiritually blind. Do you not recognize how much better it would be first to cleanse the inside of the cup, and then that which spills over would of itself cleanse the outside? You wicked reprobates! you make the outward performances of your religion to conform with the letter of your interpretation of Moses’ law while your souls are steeped in iniquity and filled with murder.
1955 175:1.19 “Woe upon all of you who reject truth and spurn mercy! Many of you are like whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful but within are full of dead men’s bones and all sorts of uncleanness. Even so do you who knowingly reject the counsel of God appear outwardly to men as holy and righteous, but inwardly your hearts are filled with hypocrisy and iniquity.
1955 175:1.20 “Woe upon you, false guides of a nation! Over yonder have you built a monument to the martyred prophets of old, while you plot to destroy Him of whom they spoke. You garnish the tombs of the righteous and flatter yourselves that, had you lived in the days of your fathers, you would not have killed the prophets; and then in the face of such self-righteous thinking you make ready to slay him of whom the prophets spoke, the Son of Man. Inasmuch as you do these things, are you witness to yourselves that you are the wicked sons of them who slew the prophets. Go on, then, and fill up the cup of your condemnation to the full!
1955 175:1.22 “But even now I offer you in my Father’s name mercy and forgiveness; even now I proffer the loving hand of eternal fellowship. My Father has sent you the wise men and the prophets; some you have persecuted and others you have killed. Then appeared John proclaiming the coming of the Son of Man, and him you destroyed after many had believed his teaching. And now you make ready to shed more innocent blood. Do you not comprehend that a terrible day of reckoning will come when the Judge of all the earth shall require of this people an accounting for the way they have rejected, persecuted, and destroyed these messengers of heaven? Do you not understand that you must account for all of this righteous blood, from the first prophet killed down to the times of Zechariah, who was slain between the sanctuary and the altar? And if you go on in your evil ways, this accounting may be required of this very generation.
2015 175:1.22 「しかし、今でも、私は、父の名にかけて慈悲と許しをあなた方に提供する。今でも、私は、情愛深い永遠の親交の手を差し出す。父は、賢者や予言者達を遣わした。あなた方は、ある者を迫害し、また、他の者を殺してしまった。そして、ヨハネは、人の息子の到来を宣言して現れ、多くの者が、その教えを信じると、あなた方は、ヨハネを滅ぼした。そして今度は、あなた方は、さらに罪の無い血を流す用意をしている。全地球の裁判官が、天のこれらの使者を拒絶し、迫害し、滅ぼした手段についての報告をこの民族に要求する時、罪の報いの恐ろしい日が来ることが、あなた方には分からないのか。あなた方は、最初の予言者が殺されてから拝殿と祭壇の間で殺されたザハリーアの時代に至るまでの全てのこの正義の血の説明をしなければならないということを理解しないのか。そして、あなた方が邪悪の道を進み続けるならば、この報告は、まさしくこの世代に要求されるかもしれないのである。[21]
1955 175:1.24 “And now I take leave of you. You have heard my message and have made your decision. Those who have believed my gospel are even now safe within the kingdom of God. To you who have chosen to reject the gift of God, I say that you will no more see me teaching in the temple. My work for you is done. Behold, I now go forth with my children, and your house is left to you desolate!”
2. STATUS OF INDIVIDUAL JEWS
2. 個々のユダヤ人の事情
1955 175:2.1 The fact that the spiritual leaders and the religious teachers of the Jewish nation onetime rejected the teachings of Jesus and conspired to bring about his cruel death, does not in any manner affect the status of any individual Jew in his standing before God. And it should not cause those who profess to be followers of the Christ to be prejudiced against the Jew as a fellow mortal. The Jews, as a nation, as a sociopolitical group, paid in full the terrible price of rejecting the Prince of Peace. Long since they ceased to be the spiritual torchbearers of divine truth to the races of mankind, but this constitutes no valid reason why the individual descendants of these long-ago Jews should be made to suffer the persecutions which have been visited upon them by intolerant, unworthy, and bigoted professed followers of Jesus of Nazareth, who was, himself, a Jew by natural birth.
2015 175:2.1 ユダヤ国家の精霊的な指導者と宗教教師が、かつてイエスの教えを拒絶し、残酷な死をもたらそうと共謀をしたというその事実は、神の前に立つ個々のユダヤ人の状況に少しの影響も与えない。そして、それは、仲間の人間としてのユダヤ人に対しキリストの追随者であると称する人々に偏見を抱かせるべきではない。ユダヤ人は、国家として、社会政治集団として、平和の王子を拒絶する甚だしい犠牲を完全に払った。ユダヤ人は、ずっと以前に人類諸民族へ神性の真実を明らかにする精霊的な松明持ちであることを止めたが、これは、自身がユダヤ人の生まれであるナザレのイエスの偏狭で、無価値で、頑固な追随者であると名乗る者達が、これらの昔のユダヤ人の個々の子孫を迫害し、苦しめる有効な理由とはならない。[25]
1955 175:2.2 Many times has this unreasoning and un-Christlike hatred and persecution of modern Jews terminated in the suffering and death of some innocent and unoffending Jewish individual whose very ancestors, in the times of Jesus, heartily accepted his gospel and presently died unflinchingly for that truth which they so wholeheartedly believed. What a shudder of horror passes over the onlooking celestial beings as they behold the professed followers of Jesus indulge themselves in persecuting, harassing, and even murdering the later-day descendants of Peter, Philip, Matthew, and others of the Palestinian Jews who so gloriously yielded up their lives as the first martyrs of the gospel of the heavenly kingdom!
2015 175:2.2 幾度となく、近代ユダヤ人に対するこの無分別で非キリスト的な憎しみと迫害は、イエスの時代に、彼の福音を心から受け入れ、心の底から信じたその真実のためにやがて怯むことなく死んだユダヤ人達のまさにその子孫にあたる罪のない、害のないユダヤ人の個人の苦しみへと、また死にへと追いやった。イエスの見せかけの追随者達が、天なる王国の福音の最初の殉教者として見事に命を捨てたペトロス、フィリッポス、マタイオスの、それに他のパレスチナのユダヤ人の近代の子孫を迫害し、悩ませ、殺害さえして欲しいがままにしているのを目にする観察中の天の存在者達を何という恐怖の戦慄がよぎるとは。
1955 175:2.3 How cruel and unreasoning to compel innocent children to suffer for the sins of their progenitors, misdeeds of which they are wholly ignorant, and for which they could in no way be responsible! And to do such wicked deeds in the name of one who taught his disciples to love even their enemies! It has become necessary, in this recital of the life of Jesus, to portray the manner in which certain of his fellow Jews rejected him and conspired to bring about his ignominious death; but we would warn all who read this narrative that the presentation of such a historical recital in no way justifies the unjust hatred, nor condones the unfair attitude of mind, which so many professed Christians have maintained toward individual Jews for many centuries. Kingdom believers, those who follow the teachings of Jesus, must cease to mistreat the individual Jew as one who is guilty of the rejection and crucifixion of Jesus. The Father and his Creator Son have never ceased to love the Jews. God is no respecter of persons, and salvation is for the Jew as well as for the gentile.
2015 175:2.3 先祖の罪のために、完全な無知からくる悪行のために、責任の負いようのない事のために、罪の無い子孫を苦しみに追いやるということは、何とに残酷で無分別であることか。その上、敵さえ愛することを弟子に教えた方の名においてそのような邪悪な行為をするとは。イエスを拒絶し、ユダヤ人の仲間達が、彼に不名誉な死をもたらす企みの様子の描写が、イエスの人生のこの詳述において必要となったのだが、我々は、そのような歴史的な詳述の提示は、不当な憎悪を決して正当化しないし、非常に多くの者が、キリスト教徒は、何世紀もの間、個々のユダヤ人に対して維持していた心の不公平な態度を容赦もしないということをこの物語を読む全員に警告したい。王国の信者は、イエスの教えに続く人々は、イエスの拒絶と磔刑に関して有罪である者として個々のユダヤ人を不当に扱うことを止めなければならない。父とその創造者たる息子は、決してユダヤ人を愛することを止めたことがない。神は人々を差別をせず、かつ、救済は、非ユダヤ人とユダヤ人のためのものでもある。[26]
3. THE FATEFUL SANHEDRIN MEETING
3. シネヅリオン派の運命的な会合
1955 175:3.1 At eight o’clock on this Tuesday evening the fateful meeting of the Sanhedrin was called to order. On many previous occasions had this supreme court of the Jewish nation informally decreed the death of Jesus. Many times had this august ruling body determined to put a stop to his work, but never before had they resolved to place him under arrest and to bring about his death at any and all costs. It was just before midnight on this Tuesday, April 4, A.D. 30, that the Sanhedrin, as then constituted, officially and unanimously voted to impose the death sentence upon both Jesus and Lazarus. This was the answer to the Master’s last appeal to the rulers of the Jews which he had made in the temple only a few hours before, and it represented their reaction of bitter resentment toward Jesus’ last and vigorous indictment of these same chief priests and impenitent Sadducees and Pharisees. The passing of death sentence (even before his trial) upon the Son of God was the Sanhedrin’s reply to the last offer of heavenly mercy ever to be extended to the Jewish nation, as such.
2015 175:3.1 この火曜日の夜8時、シネヅリオン派の運命的な会合が招集された。ユダヤ国家のこの最高裁は、数多くの前回の会合でイエスの死を非公式に宣告してきた。この威厳をもつ管轄団体は、何度もイエスの仕事を止めさせることを表決してはきたが、ありとあらゆる犠牲をはらっても彼を捕縛し、死に追い遣ることは、かつて一度も決議したことがなかった。シネヅリオン派が、そこで会を成立させ、公式に、しかも満場一致でイエスとラザロ両者に死刑を言い渡すことを決議したのは、西暦30年4月4日、この火曜日の丁度真夜中前のことであった。これは、ほんの数時間前、寺院でユダヤの支配者へ最後に訴えた彼への返答であり、それは、これらの同じ司祭長や悔い改めないサドカイ派とパリサイ派に対するイエスの最後の、力強い摘発に向けてのシネヅリオン派の激しい憤慨の反応を意味するものであった。神の息子への死刑宣告を下すことは、(裁判前にさえ)、そのような国としてユダヤ人の国に広げられる天の慈悲のじつに最後の申し出に対するシネヅリオン派の返事であった。
1955 175:3.2 From this time on the Jews were left to finish their brief and short lease of national life wholly in accordance with their purely human status among the nations of Urantia. Israel had repudiated the Son of the God who made a covenant with Abraham, and the plan to make the children of Abraham the light-bearers of truth to the world had been shattered. The divine covenant had been abrogated, and the end of the Hebrew nation drew on apace.
2015 175:3.2 ユダヤ人は、純然たる人間の地位に従って、この後ずっとユランチアの国々の間に自分達の簡潔で短い国家生命の寿命を終えるままにされた。イスラエルは、アブラーハームとの盟約をした神のその息子を否認し、また、アブラーハームの子孫を世界への真実の光の運搬人にする計画を打ち砕いてしまった。神の盟約は、破棄され、ヘブライの国の終焉は速められた。
1955 175:3.3 The officers of the Sanhedrin were given the orders for Jesus’ arrest early the next morning, but with instructions that he must not be apprehended in public. They were told to plan to take him in secret, preferably suddenly and at night. Understanding that he might not return that day (Wednesday) to teach in the temple, they instructed these officers of the Sanhedrin to “bring him before the high Jewish court sometime before midnight on Thursday.”
2015 175:3.3 翌朝早く、イエスの捕縛がシネヅリオン派の役員に命じられたが、彼が、公の前で捕らえられてはならないと言う指示であった。かれらは、望ましくは、突如夜間に秘密裏に捕らえる計画を立てるように言われた。イエスが当日(水曜日)寺院での教えには戻ってこないかもしれないと理解して、彼らは、シネヅリオン派のこれらの役員に「木曜日の真夜中になる前に、ユダヤの最高法廷に彼を連れて来る」ように命じた。
4. THE SITUATION IN JERUSALEM
4. エルサレムの状況
1955 175:4.1 At the conclusion of Jesus’ last discourse in the temple, the apostles once more were left in confusion and consternation. Before the Master began his terrible denunciation of the Jewish rulers, Judas had returned to the temple, so that all twelve heard this latter half of Jesus’ last discourse in the temple. It is unfortunate that Judas Iscariot could not have heard the first and mercy-proffering half of this farewell address. He did not hear this last offer of mercy to the Jewish rulers because he was still in conference with a certain group of Sadducean relatives and friends with whom he had lunched, and with whom he was conferring as to the most fitting manner of dissociating himself from Jesus and his fellow apostles. It was while listening to the Master’s final indictment of the Jewish leaders and rulers that Judas finally and fully made up his mind to forsake the gospel movement and wash his hands of the whole enterprise. Nevertheless, he left the temple in company with the twelve, went with them to Mount Olivet, where, with his fellow apostles, he listened to that fateful discourse on the destruction of Jerusalem and the end of the Jewish nation, and remained with them that Tuesday night at the new camp near Gethsemane.
2015 175:4.1 寺院でのイエスの最後の講話の結びにおいて、使徒は、再度、混乱と狼狽お状態におかれていた。あるじが、ユダヤの指導者への凄じい告発を始める前、ユダは寺院に戻ってきていたので、12人全員が、寺院でのイエスのこの最後の講話の後半を聞いた。ユダ・イスカリオテが、この別れの演説での慈悲の申し出の前半を聞けなかったことは、不運である。かれは、昼食を共にしたサッヅカイオス派の親類と友人達の特定集団との会議中であったので、またイエスと使徒仲間との関係を断つ最も相応しい方法に関して相談をしていたので、ユダヤ人の支配者へのこの最後の慈悲の申し出を聞かなかった。ユダが、最終的に、また完全に福音運動を放棄し、全体の事業から手を切る決心をしたのは、ユダヤ人の指導者と支配者へのあるじの最後の告発を聞いている最中であった。それでも、かれは、12人と共に寺院を出て、共にオリーヴ山に行き、仲間の使徒とエルサレムの破壊とユダヤ国家の最後についての運命的な講話を聞き、その火曜日の夜、ゲッセマネ近くの新しい宿営所に留まった。
1955 175:4.2 The multitude who heard Jesus swing from his merciful appeal to the Jewish leaders into that sudden and scathing rebuke which bordered on ruthless denunciation, were stunned and bewildered. That night, while the Sanhedrin sat in death judgment upon Jesus, and while the Master sat with his apostles and certain of his disciples out on the Mount of Olives foretelling the death of the Jewish nation, all Jerusalem was given over to the serious and suppressed discussion of just one question: “What will they do with Jesus?”
2015 175:4.2 ユダヤ人指導者への慈悲深い訴えから突然の、そして痛烈な、ほとんど無慈悲な告発に近い叱責へのイエスの移り変わりを聞いた群衆は、唖然とし、狼狽えた。その夜、シネヅリオン派が、イエスに死の裁判をし、一方あるじが、オリーヴ山で使徒と特定の数人の弟子と座り、ユダヤ人国家の終わりを予告している間、全エルサレムは、ただ1つの質問に関する重大かつ抑えられた議論にふけっていた。「かれらは、イエスをどうするのであろうか。」
1955 175:4.3 At the home of Nicodemus more than thirty prominent Jews who were secret believers in the kingdom met and debated what course they would pursue in case an open break with the Sanhedrin should come. All present agreed that they would make open acknowledgment of their allegiance to the Master in the very hour they should hear of his arrest. And that is just what they did.
1955 175:4.4 The Sadducees, who now controlled and dominated the Sanhedrin, were desirous of making away with Jesus for the following reasons:
2015 175:4.4 そのときシネヅリオン派を制御し支配したサドカイ派は、次の理由でイエスを連れ去ることを願ってやまなかった。
1955 175:4.5 1. They feared that the increased popular favor with which the multitude regarded him threatened to endanger the existence of the Jewish nation by possible involvement with the Roman authorities.
2015 175:4.5 1. 大衆からのイエスへの増大する支援が、ローマ当局との可能な係わりによりユダヤ人の国家存立を危険に曝すことを恐れた。
1955 175:4.7 3. They felt themselves responsible for the preservation of social order, and they feared the consequences of the further spread of Jesus’ strange and new doctrine of the brotherhood of man.
2015 175:4.7 3. かれらは、社会秩序の維持に責任があると感じ、また人間の兄弟愛に関するイエスの奇妙で新しい教義の一層の普及の結果を恐れた。
1955 175:4.8 The Pharisees had different motives for wanting to see Jesus put to death. They feared him because:
2015 175:4.8 パリサイ派には、イエスが殺されるのを見たいと欲する異なる動機があった。パリサイ派がイエスを恐れた理由は、
1955 175:4.9 1. He was arrayed in telling opposition to their traditional hold upon the people. The Pharisees were ultraconservative, and they bitterly resented these supposedly radical attacks upon their vested prestige as religious teachers.
2015 175:4.9 1. かれは、人々に対する伝統的な支配に効果的な対抗の位置に立った。パリサイ派は、超保守的であり、宗教教師としての既得の威信へのこれらのおそらく急進的な攻撃にひどく憤慨した。
1955 175:4.10 2. They held that Jesus was a lawbreaker; that he had shown utter disregard for the Sabbath and numerous other legal and ceremonial requirements.
2015 175:4.10 2. パリサイ派は、イエスが、法律違反者であると、安息日と他の数多くの法的で儀式的な必要条件を全く無視したと、考えた。
2015 175:4.11 3. かれらは、イエスが神を自分の父として触れたので、冒涜の罪で告発した。
1955 175:4.13 The Sanhedrin, having formally decreed the death of Jesus and having issued orders for his arrest, adjourned on this Tuesday near midnight, after appointing to meet at ten o’clock the next morning at the home of Caiaphas the high priest for the purpose of formulating the charges on which Jesus should be brought to trial.
1955 175:4.14 A small group of the Sadducees had actually proposed to dispose of Jesus by assassination, but the Pharisees utterly refused to countenance such a procedure.
2015 175:4.14 サドカイ派の小集団は、実はイエスを暗殺で処分しようと提案したが、パリサイ派は、そのような処置の是認を全く拒否した。
1955 175:4.15 And this was the situation in Jerusalem and among men on this eventful day while a vast concourse of celestial beings hovered over this momentous scene on earth, anxious to do something to assist their beloved Sovereign but powerless to act because they were effectively restrained by their commanding superiors.
2015 175:4.15 これが、この波瀾万丈の日のエルサレムと人々の間での状況であり、一方天の存在体の巨大な群衆は、地球のこの由々しき光景の上にいて、最愛の君主を助ける何かを切望していたが、指揮に当たっている上官達に効果的に拘束されていたので行うことができなかった。