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4 Maccabees 5
Greek original · 38 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss
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5:1
προκαθίσας γέ τοι μετὰ τῶν συνέδρων ὁ τύραννος Ἀντίοχος ἐπί τινος ὑψηλοῦ τόπου καὶ τῶν στρατευμάτων αὐτῷ παρεστηκότων κυκλόθεν ἐνόπλων
The tyrant Antiochus, therefore, sitting in public state with his assessors upon a certain lofty place, with his armed troops standing in a circle around him,
暴君安提阿古帶著議員們坐在一處高臺上，全副武裝的軍隊環立在他四圍，
5:2
παρεκέλευεν τοῖς δορυφόροις ἕνα ἕκαστον Εβραῖον ἐπισπᾶσθαι καὶ κρεῶν ὑείων καὶ εἰδωλοθύτων ἀναγκάζειν ἀπογεύεσθαι
commanded his spearbearers to seize every one of the Hebrews, and to compel them to taste swine’s flesh, and things offered to idols.
他吩咐衛兵把每一個希伯來人拖來，強迫他們嘗豬肉和祭過偶像的食物。
5:3
εἰ δέ τινες μὴ θέλοιεν μιαροφαγῆσαι τούτους τροχισθέντας ἀναιρεθῆναι
And should any of them be unwilling to eat the accursed food, they were to be tortured on the wheel, and so killed.
若有人不肯喫那不潔的食物，就把他放在輪上拷打處死。
5:4
πολλῶν δὲ συναρπασθέντων εἷς πρῶτος ἐκ τῆς ἀγέλης ὀνόματι Ελεαζαρος τὸ γένος ἱερεύς τὴν ἐπιστήμην νομικὸς καὶ τὴν ἡλικίαν προήκων καὶ πολλοῖς τῶν περὶ τὸν τύραννον διὰ τὴν ἡλικίαν γνώριμος παρήχθη πλησίον αὐτοῦ
And when many had been seized, a foremost man of the assembly, a Hebrew, by name Eleazar, a priest by family, by profession a lawyer, and advanced in years, and for this reason known to many of the king’s followers, was brought near to him.
許多人被抓來，其中有一個名叫以利亞撒的，是這羣人中為首的，按家世是祭司，按專業精通律法，年事已高，又因年歲而為暴君的許多隨從所認識，他被帶到王面前。
5:5
καὶ αὐτὸν ἰδὼν ὁ Ἀντίοχος ἔφη
And Antiochus seeing him, said,
安提阿古看見他，就說：
5:6
ἐγὼ πρὶν ἄρξασθαι τῶν κατὰ σοῦ βασάνων ὦ πρεσβῦτα συμβουλεύσαιμ’ ἄν σοι ταῦτα ὅπως ἀπογευσάμενος τῶν ὑείων σῴζοιο
I would counsel you, old man, before your tortures begin, to taste the swine’s flesh, and save your life; for I feel respect for your age and hoary head, which since you have had so long, you appear to me to be no philosopher in retaining the superstition of the Jews.
「老人家，在開始拷打你之先，我願這樣勸你：嘗一嘗豬肉，好保全你的性命。
5:7
αἰδοῦμαι γάρ σου τὴν ἡλικίαν καὶ τὴν πολιάν ἣν μετὰ τοσοῦτον ἔχων χρόνον οὔ μοι δοκεῖς φιλοσοφεῖν τῇ Ιουδαίων χρώμενος θρησκείᾳ
For wherefore, since nature has conferred upon you the most excellent flesh of this animal, do you loathe it?
因為我敬重你的年紀和白髮；你既已活到這把年紀，卻還守著猶太人的宗教，在我看來實在不算是個明智的人。
5:8
διὰ τί γὰρ τῆς φύσεως κεχαρισμένης καλλίστην τὴν τοῦδε τοῦ ζῴου σαρκοφαγίαν βδελύττῃ
It seems senseless not to enjoy what is pleasant, yet not disgraceful; and from notions of sinfulness, to reject the boons of nature.
既然天性賜下這牲畜的肉是最為美好的，你為何要厭惡呢？
5:9
καὶ γὰρ ἀνόητον τοῦτο τὸ μὴ ἀπολαύειν τῶν χωρὶς ὀνείδους ἡδέων καὶ ἄδικον ἀποστρέφεσθαι τὰς τῆς φύσεως χάριτας
And you will be acting, I think, still more senselessly, if you follow vain conceits about the truth.
因為這實在愚昧：放著那既不可恥又愉悅的享受不去享用，竟拒絕天性的恩賜，這也是不公道的。
5:10
σὺ δέ μοι καὶ ἀνοητότερον ποιήσειν δοκεῖς εἰ κενοδοξῶν περὶ τὸ ἀληθὲς ἔτι κἀμοῦ καταφρονήσεις ἐπὶ τῇ ἰδίᾳ τιμωρίᾳ
And you will, moreover, be despising me to your own punishment.
在我看來，你若還對所謂的真理存著虛妄的執念，甚至藐視我，自取刑罰，那就更加愚昧了。
5:11
οὐκ ἐξυπνώσεις ἀπὸ τῆς φλυάρου φιλοσοφίας ὑμῶν καὶ ἀποσκεδάσεις τῶν λογισμῶν σου τὸν λῆρον καὶ ἄξιον τῆς ἡλικίας ἀναλαβὼν νοῦν φιλοσοφήσεις τὴν τοῦ συμφέροντος ἀλήθειαν
Will you not awake from your trifling philosophy? and give up the folly of your notions; and, regaining understanding worthy of your age, search into the truth of an expedient course?
你豈不該從你們這荒謬的哲學中醒過來，拋開你思想中的廢話，重新拿出與你年紀相稱的見識，去探究那於己有益的真理嗎？
5:12
καὶ προσκυνήσας μου τὴν φιλάνθρωπον παρηγορίαν οἰκτιρήσεις τὸ σεαυτοῦ γῆρας
and, reverencing my kindly admonition, have pity upon your own years?
你豈不該領受我這出於善意的勸勉，憐惜你自己的老年嗎？
5:13
καὶ γὰρ ἐνθυμήθητι ὡς εἰ καί τίς ἐστιν τῆσδε τῆς θρησκείας ὑμῶν ἐποπτικὴ δύναμις συγγνωμονήσειεν ἄν σοι ἐπὶ πάσῃ δῑ ἀνάγκην παρανομίᾳ γινομένῃ
For, bear in mind, that if there be any power which watches over this religion of yours, it will pardon you for all transgressions of the law which you commit through compulsion.
你且想一想：縱然你們這宗教真有甚麼鑒察的能力，它也必赦免你一切因被迫而犯的違法之事。」
5:14
τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον ἐπὶ τὴν ἔκθεσμον σαρκοφαγίαν ἐποτρύνοντος τοῦ τυράννου λόγον ᾔτησεν ὁ Ελεαζαρος
While the tyrant incited him in this manner to the unlawful eating of flesh, Eleazar begged permission to speak.
暴君這樣慫恿以利亞撒去喫那違禁的肉，以利亞撒便請求準許發言。
5:15
καὶ λαβὼν τοῦ λέγειν ἐξουσίαν ἤρξατο δημηγορεῖν οὕτως
And having received power to speak, he began thus to deliver himself:
他既得了發言的權利，就開口這樣陳詞：
5:16
ἡμεῖς Ἀντίοχε θείῳ πεπεισμένοι νόμῳ πολιτεύεσθαι οὐδεμίαν ἀνάγκην βιαιοτέραν εἶναι νομίζομεν τῆς πρὸς τὸν νόμον ἡμῶν εὐπειθείας
We, O Antiochus, who are persuaded that we live under a divine law, consider no compulsion to be so forcible as obedience to that law;
「安提阿古啊，我們既深信自己是照著神聖的律法而活，就認為沒有甚麼強制力比順從我們的律法更為迫切。
5:17
διὸ δὴ κατ’ οὐδένα τρόπον παρανομεῖν ἀξιοῦμεν
wherefore we consider that we ought not in any point to transgress the law.
因此，我們認定無論在哪一點上，都絕不可違背律法。
5:18
καίτοι εἰ κατὰ ἀλήθειαν μὴ ἦν ὁ νόμος ἡμῶν ὡς ὑπολαμβάνεις θεῖος ἄλλως δὲ ἐνομίζομεν αὐτὸν εἶναι θεῖον οὐδὲ οὕτως ἐξὸν ἦν ἡμῖν τὴν ἐπὶ τῇ εὐσεβείᾳ δόξαν ἀκυρῶσαι
And indeed, were our law (as you suppose) not truly divine, and if we wrongly think it divine, we should have no right even in that case to destroy our sense of religion.
縱然我們的律法真如你所想的並非神聖，而是我們誤以為它神聖，即便如此，我們也不可廢棄我們對敬虔所持的信念。
5:19
μὴ μικρὰν οὖν εἶναι νομίσῃς ταύτην εἰ μιαροφαγήσαιμεν ἁμαρτίαν
think not eating the unclean, then, a trifling offense.
所以你不要以為，我們若喫了不潔之物，乃是微不足道的小罪。
5:20
τὸ γὰρ ἐπὶ μικροῖς καὶ μεγάλοις παρανομεῖν ἰσοδύναμόν ἐστιν
For transgression of the law, whether in small or great matters, is of equal moment;
因為無論在小事或大事上違背律法，其分量都是一樣的；
5:21
δῑ ἑκατέρου γὰρ ὡς ὁμοίως ὁ νόμος ὑπερηφανεῖται
for in either case the law is equally slighted.
因為在這兩種情形下，律法都同樣受到輕慢。
5:22
χλευάζεις δὲ ἡμῶν τὴν φιλοσοφίαν ὥσπερ οὐ μετὰ εὐλογιστίας ἐν αὐτῇ βιούντων
But you deride our philosophy, as though we lived irrationally in it.
你譏笑我們的哲學，彷彿我們在其中過著毫無理性的生活。
5:23
σωφροσύνην τε γὰρ ἡμᾶς ἐκδιδάσκει ὥστε πασῶν τῶν ἡδονῶν καὶ ἐπιθυμιῶν κρατεῖν καὶ ἀνδρείαν ἐξασκεῖ ὥστε πάντα πόνον ἑκουσίως ὑπομένειν
Yet it instructs us in temperance, so that we are superior to all pleasures and lusts; and it exercises us in manliness, so that we cheerfully undergo every grievance.
其實這哲學教導我們節制，使我們能勝過一切快樂與貪慾；它操練我們勇敢，使我們甘心忍受各樣的苦難；
5:24
καὶ δικαιοσύνην παιδεύει ὥστε διὰ πάντων τῶν ἠθῶν ἰσονομεῖν καὶ εὐσέβειαν ἐκδιδάσκει ὥστε μόνον τὸν ὄντα θεὸν σέβειν μεγαλοπρεπῶς
And it instructs us in justice, so that in all our dealings we render what is due; and it teaches us piety, so that we worship the one only God becomingly.
它教導我們公義，使我們在一切行事上待人公平；它教導我們敬虔，使我們以隆重的方式單單敬拜那位獨一的真神。
5:25
διὸ οὐ μιαροφαγοῦμεν πιστεύοντες γὰρ θεοῦ καθεστάναι τὸν νόμον οἴδαμεν ὅτι κατὰ φύσιν ἡμῖν συμπαθεῖ νομοθετῶν ὁ τοῦ κόσμου κτίστης
Wherefore it is that we eat not the unclean; for believing that the law was established by God, we are convinced that the Creator of the world, in giving his laws, sympathizes with our nature.
因此我們不喫那不潔之物；因為我們相信律法是神所設立的，便深知這宇宙的創造者在頒立律法時，是體恤我們本性的。
5:26
τὰ μὲν οἰκειωθησόμενα ἡμῶν ταῖς ψυχαῖς ἐπέτρεψεν ἐσθίειν τὰ δὲ ἐναντιωθησόμενα ἐκώλυσεν σαρκοφαγεῖν
Those things which are convenient to our souls, he has directed us to eat; but those which are repugnant to them, he has interdicted.
凡與我們的魂相宜的，他就準我們喫；凡與我們的魂相違的，他就禁止我們喫。
5:27
τυραννικὸν δὲ οὐ μόνον ἀναγκάζειν ἡμᾶς παρανομεῖν ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐσθίειν ὅπως τῇ ἐχθίστῃ ἡμῶν μιαροφαγίᾳ ταύτῃ ἐπεγγελάσῃς
But, tyrant-like, you not only force us to break the law, but also to eat, that you may ridicule us as we thus profanely eat:
你像暴君一樣，不僅強迫我們違背律法，更強迫我們喫，好藉我們喫這最可憎的不潔之物來譏笑我們；
5:28
ἀλλ’ οὐ γελάσεις κατ’ ἐμοῦ τοῦτον τὸν γέλωτα
but you shall not have this cause of laughter against me;
但你絕不能藉此向我發出這樣的譏笑；
5:29
οὔτε τοὺς ἱεροὺς τῶν προγόνων περὶ τοῦ φυλάξαι τὸν νόμον ὅρκους οὐ παρήσω
nor will I transgress the sacred oaths of my forefathers to keep the law.
我也絕不違背列祖那為守律法所立的神聖誓言。
5:30
οὐδ’ ἂν ἐκκόψειάς μου τὰ ὄμματα καὶ τὰ σπλάγχνα μου τήξειας
No, not if you pluck out my eyes, and consume my entrails.
縱然你剜出我的眼睛，焚毀我的臟腑，我也決不違背。
5:31
οὐχ οὕτως εἰμὶ γέρων ἐγὼ καὶ ἄνανδρος ὥστε μοι διὰ τὴν εὐσέβειαν μὴ νεάζειν τὸν λογισμόν
I am not so old, and void of manliness, but that my rational powers are youthful in defence of my religion.
我雖然年老，卻不是那等沒有男子氣概的人，以致不能為著敬虔而使我的理性重新煥發年輕的力量。
5:32
πρὸς ταῦτα τροχοὺς εὐτρέπιζε καὶ τὸ πῦρ ἐκφύσα σφοδρότερον
Now then; prepare your wheels, and kindle a fiercer flame.
你儘管預備你的刑輪，把火燒得更猛烈些！
5:33
οὐχ οὕτως οἰκτίρομαι τὸ ἐμαυτοῦ γῆρας ὥστε δῑ ἐμαυτοῦ τὸν πάτριον καταλῦσαι νόμον
I will not so compassionate my old age, as on my account to break the law of my country.
我絕不會因憐惜自己的老年，而親手廢棄祖宗的律法。
5:34
οὐ ψεύσομαί σε παιδευτὰ νόμε οὐδὲ ἐξομοῦμαί σε φίλη ἐγκράτεια
I will not belie you, O law, my instructor! or forsake you, O beloved self-control!
律法，我的師傅啊，我絕不背棄你！可愛的自制啊，我絕不離棄你！
5:35
οὐδὲ καταισχυνῶ σε φιλόσοφε λόγε οὐδὲ ἐξαρνήσομαί σε ἱερωσύνη τιμία καὶ νομοθεσίας ἐπιστήμη
I will not put you to shame, O philosopher Reason; or deny you, O honored priesthood, and science of the law.
哲學的理性啊，我絕不使你蒙羞！尊貴的祭司職分和律法的知識啊，我絕不否認你！
5:36
οὐδὲ μιανεῖς μου τὸ σεμνὸν γήρως στόμα οὐδὲ νομίμου βίου ἡλικίαν
Mouth! you shall not pollute my old age, nor the full stature of a perfect life.
你也絕不能玷污我這莊嚴老年的口，或我這合乎律法之生命的高齡。
5:37
ἁγνόν με οἱ πατέρες εἰσδέξονται μὴ φοβηθέντα σου τὰς μέχρι θανάτου ἀνάγκας
My fathers shall receive me pure, not having quailed before your compulsion, though to death.
列祖必要潔淨地接納我，因我不曾在你那直到死亡的強迫面前畏縮。
5:38
ἀσεβῶν μὲν γὰρ τυραννήσεις τῶν δὲ ἐμῶν ὑπὲρ τῆς εὐσεβείας λογισμῶν οὔτε λόγοις δεσπόσεις οὔτε δῑ ἔργων
For over the ungodly you shall tyrannize; but you shall not lord it over my thoughts about religion, either by your arguments, or through deeds.
因為你雖能轄制那些不敬虔的人，卻無論用言語或行為，都不能轄制我這為敬虔而存的理性。」