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- さて, 月が 滿ちて, エリサベト は 男の 子を 産んだ.
- 近所の 人¿や 親類は, 主が エリサベト を 大いに 慈しまれたと 聞いて 喜び 合った.
- 八日目に, その 子に 割禮を 施すために 來た 人¿は, 父の 名を 取って ザカリア と 名付けようとした.
- ところが, 母は, 「いいえ, 名は ヨハネ としなければなりません 」と 言った.
- しかし 人¿は, 「あなたの 親類には, そういう 名の 付いた 人はだれもいない 」と 言い,
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- When it was time for Elizabeth to have her baby, she gave birth to a son.
- Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they shared her joy.
- On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him after his father Zechariah,
- but his mother spoke up and said, "No! He is to be called John."
- They said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who has that name."
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- 父親に, 「この 子に 何と 名を 付けたいか 」と 手振りで 尋ねた.
- 父親は 字を 書く 板を 出させて, 「この 子の 名は ヨハネ 」と 書いたので, 人¿は 皆驚いた.
- すると, たちまち ザカリア は 口が 開き, 舌がほどけ, 神を 贊美し 始めた.
- 近所の 人¿は 皆恐れを 感じた. そして, このことすべてが, ユダヤ の 山里中で 話題になった.
- 聞いた 人¿は 皆これを 心に 留め, 「いったい, この 子はどんな 人になるのだろうか 」と 言った. この 子には 主の 力が 及んでいたのである.
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- Then they made signs to his father, to find out what he would like to name the child.
- He asked for a writing tablet, and to everyone's astonishment he wrote, "His name is John."
- Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue was loosed, and he began to speak, praising God.
- The neighbors were all filled with awe, and throughout the hill country of Judea people were talking about all these things.
- Everyone who heard this wondered about it, asking, "What then is this child going to be?" For the Lord's hand was with him.
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- 父 ザカリア は 聖靈に 滿たされ, こう 預言した.
- 「ほめたたえよ, イスラエル の 神である 主を. 主はその 民を 訪れて 解放し,
- 我らのために 救いの 角を, /僕 ダビデ の 家から 起こされた.
- 昔から 聖なる 預言者たちの 口を 通して /語られたとおりに.
- それは, 我らの 敵, /すべて 我らを 憎む 者の 手からの 救い.
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- His father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied:
- "Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has come and has redeemed his people.
- He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David
- (as he said through his holy prophets of long ago),
- salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us--
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- 主は 我らの 先祖を 憐れみ, /その 聖なる 契約を 覺えていてくださる.
- これは 我らの 父 アブラハム に 立てられた 誓い. こうして 我らは,
- 敵の 手から 救われ, /恐れなく 主に 仕える,
- 生涯, 主の 御前に 淸く 正しく.
- 幼子よ, お 前はいと 高き 方の 預言者と 呼ばれる. 主に 先立って 行き, その 道を 整え,
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- to show mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant,
- the oath he swore to our father Abraham:
- to rescue us from the hand of our enemies, and to enable us to serve him without fear
- in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.
- And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him,
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- 主の 民に 罪の 赦しによる 救いを /知らせるからである.
- これは 我らの 神の 憐れみの 心による. この 憐れみによって, /高い 所からあけぼのの 光が 我らを 訪れ,
- 暗闇と 死の 陰に 座している 者たちを 照らし, /我らの 步みを 平和の 道に 導く. 」
- 幼子は 身も 心も 健やかに 育ち, イスラエル の 人¿の 前に 現れるまで 荒れ 野にいた.
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- to give his people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins,
- because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven
- to shine on those living in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace."
- And the child grew and became strong in spirit; and he lived in the desert until he appeared publicly to Israel.
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