4 Maccabees 17

Greek original · 24 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss

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

17:1

ἔλεγον δὲ καὶ τῶν δορυφόρων τινὲς ὅτι ὡς ἔμελλεν συλλαμβάνεσθαι καὶ αὐτὴ πρὸς θάνατον ἵνα μὴ ψαύσειέν τις τοῦ σώματος αὐτῆς ἑαυτὴν ἔρριψε κατὰ τῆς πυρᾶς

And some of the spearbearers said, that when she herself was about to be seized for the purpose of being put to death, she threw herself upon the pile, rather than they should touch her person.

有些衛兵說，當她自己也將要被捕處死時，為免有人觸碰她的身體，她就投身於火堆之中。

17:2

ὦ μήτηρ σὺν ἑπτὰ παισὶν καταλύσασα τὴν τοῦ τυράννου βίαν καὶ ἀκυρώσασα τὰς κακὰς ἐπινοίας αὐτοῦ καὶ δείξασα τὴν τῆς πίστεως γενναιότητα

O you mother, who together with seven children did destroy the violence of the tyrant, and render void his wicked intentions, and exhibit the nobleness of faith!

哦，這母親與七個兒子一同瓦解了暴君的暴力，使他惡毒的詭計歸於無效，又彰顯了信心的高尚！

17:3

καθάπερ γὰρ σὺ στέγη ἐπὶ τοὺς στύλους τῶν παίδων γενναίως ἱδρυμένη ἀκλινὴς ὑπήνεγκας τὸν διὰ τῶν βασάνων σεισμόν

For you, as an house bravely built upon the pillar of your children, did bear without swaying, the shock of tortures.

因為你如同一座高尚地建在你兒女這些柱子上的房屋，毫不動搖地頂住了那藉酷刑而來的震撼。

17:4

θάρρει τοιγαροῦν ὦ μήτηρ ἱερόψυχε τὴν ἐλπίδα τῆς ὑπομονῆς βεβαίαν ἔχουσα πρὸς τὸν θεόν

Be of good cheer, therefore, O holy-minded mother! holding the firm substance of the hope of your steadfastness with God.

所以，這心志聖潔的母親啊，你要剛強，在神面前持守那因堅忍而有的確實盼望。

17:5

οὐχ οὕτως σελήνη κατ’ οὐρανὸν σὺν ἄστροις σεμνὴ καθέστηκεν ὡς σὺ τοὺς ἰσαστέρους ἑπτὰ παῖδας φωταγωγήσασα πρὸς τὴν εὐσέβειαν ἔντιμος καθέστηκας θεῷ καὶ ἐστήρισαι σὺν αὐτοῖς ἐν οὐρανῷ

Not so gracious does the moon appear with the stars in heaven, as you are established honorable before God, and fixed in the firmament with your sons who you did illuminate with religion to the stars.

天上的月亮同眾星雖然莊嚴，卻不及你尊貴；你用敬虔照亮你那七個如星辰般的兒子，在神面前得了尊榮，並與他們一同被堅立在天上。

17:6

ἦν γὰρ ἡ παιδοποιία σου ἀπὸ Αβρααμ τοῦ πατρός

For your bearing of children was after the fashion of a child of Abraham.

因為你生養兒女，正有亞伯拉罕子孫的風範。

17:7

εἰ δὲ ἐξὸν ἡμῖν ἦν ὥσπερ ἐπί τινος ζωγραφῆσαι τὴν τῆς εὐσεβείας σου ἱστορίαν οὐκ ἂν ἔφριττον οἱ θεωροῦντες ὁρῶντες μητέρα ἑπτὰ τέκνων δῑ εὐσέβειαν ποικίλας βασάνους μέχρι θανάτου ὑπομείνασαν

And, were it lawful for us to paint as on a tablet the religion of your story, the spectators would not shudder at beholding the mother of seven children enduring for the sake of religion various tortures even to death.

我們若能把你敬虔的事蹟描繪在一幅畫上，那些觀看的人就不至於戰慄，反要看見一位七子之母，為著敬虔忍受各樣的酷刑直到死亡。

17:8

καὶ γὰρ ἄξιον ἦν καὶ ἐπ’ αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἐπιταφίου ἀναγράψαι καὶ ταῦτα τοῖς ἀπὸ τοῦ ἔθνους εἰς μνείαν λεγόμενα

And it had been a worth thing to have inscribed upon the tomb itself these words as a memorial to those of the nation,

確實也理當在墓碑上刻下這些話，作為本民族的記念，

17:9

ἐνταῦθα γέρων ἱερεὺς καὶ γυνὴ γεραιὰ καὶ ἑπτὰ παῖδες ἐγκεκήδευνται διὰ τυράννου βίαν τὴν Εβραίων πολιτείαν καταλῦσαι θέλοντος

Here an aged priest, and an aged woman, and seven sons, are buried through the violence of a tyrant, who wished to destroy the polity of the Hebrews.

「這裡安葬著一位年邁的祭司、一位年邁的婦人，以及七個兒子；他們是死於暴君的暴力之下，那暴君妄想廢除希伯來人的制度。