4 Maccabees 12

Greek original · 20 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss

📖 This chapter exists in 1 other originals — side by side (Septuagint)

12:1

Ως δὲ καὶ οὗτος μακαρίως ἐναπέθανε καταβληθεὶς εἰς λέβητα, ὁ ἕβδομος παρεγίνετο πάντων νεώτερος.

When he, too, had undergone blessed martyrdom, and died in the caldron into which he had been thrown, the seventh, the youngest of all, came forward:

這人也有福地死了，被扔進大鍋裡。第七個，就是眾人中最年幼的，被帶上來。

12:2

ὃν κατοικτειρήσας ὁ τύραννος, καίπερ δεινῶς ὑπὸ τῶν ἀδελφῶν αὐτοῦ κακισθείς, ὁρῶν ἤδη τὰ δεσμὰ περικείμενον,

whom the tyrant pitying, though he had been dreadfully reproached by his kindred,

暴君雖被他弟兄們嚴厲地辱罵過，卻憐憫他，見他已被鎖鏈纏身，就把他召到更近前，試圖勸他，說：

12:3

πλησιέστερον αὐτὸν μετεπέμψατο καὶ παρηγορεῖν ἐπειρᾶτο λέγων·

seeing him already encompassed with chains, had him brought nearer, and endeavoured to counsel him, saying,

「你看見你弟兄們的瘋狂落得甚麼結局：他們因悖逆而被扭折致死。

12:4

τῆς μὲν τῶν ἀδελφῶν σου ἀπονοίας τὸ τέλος ὁρᾷς· διὰ γὰρ ἀπείθειαν στρεβλωθέντες τεθνήκασι· σὺ δέ, εἰ μὲν μὴ πεισθείης, τάλας βασανισθεὶς καὶ αὐτὸς τεθνήξῃ πρὸ ὥρας.

You see the end of the madness of your kindred: for they have died in torture through disobedience; and you, if disobedient, having been miserably tormented, will yourself perish prematurely.

你若不順從，可憐的人哪，你也必受刑而提早喪命。

12:5

πεισθεὶς δὲ φίλος ἔσῃ καὶ τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς βασιλείας ἀφηγήσῃ πραγμάτων.

But if you obey, you shall be my friend, and have a charge over the affairs of the kingdom.

你若順從，就必作我的朋友，並有權管理國中的事務。」

12:6

καὶ ταῦτα παρακαλῶν, τὴν μητέρα τοῦ παιδὸς μετεπέμψατο, ὅπως αὐτὴν ἐλεήσας τοσούτων υἱῶν στερηθεῖσαν παρορμήσειεν ἐπὶ τὴν σωτήριον εὐπείθειαν τὸν περιλειπόμενον.

And having thus exhorted him, he sent for the mother of the boy; that, by condoling with her for the loss of so many sons, he might incline her, through the hope of safety, to render the survivor obedient.

他這樣勸勉之後，就召那孩子的母親來，盼望藉著與她同悲失去這麼多兒子之痛，使她出於得救的盼望，勸這存留的兒子順從。

12:7

ὁ δὲ τῆς μητρὸς τῇ ἑβραΐδι φωνῇ προτρεψαμένης αὐτὸν (ὡς ἐροῦμεν μετὰ μικρὸν ὕστερον), ἀπολύσατέ με, φησίν·

And he, after his mother had urged him on in the Hebrew tongue, (as we shall soon relate) says,

那母親用希伯來話勉勵了他（這事我們稍後再述），他便說：

12:8

εἴπω τι τῷ βασιλεῖ καὶ τοῖς σὺν αὐτῷ φίλοις πᾶσι.

Release me that I may speak to the king and all his friends.

「給我鬆綁，讓我向王和他所有的朋友說話。」

12:9

καὶ ἐπιχαρέντες ὅ τε βασιλεὺς καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ μάλιστα ἐπὶ τῇ ἐπαγγελίᾳ τοῦ παιδὸς ταχέως ἔλυσαν αὐτόν.

And they, rejoicing exceedingly at the promise of the youth, quickly let him go.

他們因這少年的應許大為歡喜，就趕緊給他鬆了綁。