Now the good man was just awaked from his sleep, and was getting up to go on his journey; so they came all up to him, and, with threatening language, bade him stand.
天路歴程271 小信の顔色は白くなり戦う力も逃げる力もありません LITTLE-FAITH looked as white as a clout; and had neither power to fight nor fly
これを聞いたリトル・フェイスの顔色は的(まと)のように白くなり、戦う力も逃げる力もありません。
At this, LITTLE-FAITH looked as white as a clout; and had neither power to fight nor fly.
Then said FAINT-HEART, 'Deliver thy purse;' but he making no haste to do it (for he was loth to lose his money), MISTRUST ran up to him, and thrusting his hand into his pocket, pulled out thence a bag of silver.
天路歴程273 罪悪は棍棒で小信の頭を殴りこの人は血を流し横たわった GUILT, with a club struck LITTLE-FAITH
Then he cried out, 'Thieves! thieves!' With that, GUILT, with a great club that was in his hand, struck LITTLE-FAITH on the head, and with that blow felled him flat to the ground; where he lay bleeding, as one that would bleed to death.
天路歴程274 賊は 「善信」の都の大恵と思い一散に逃げ出した should be one GREAT-GRACE, that dwells in the city of Good-confidence
All this while the thieves stood by; but at last, they hearing that some were upon the road, and fearing lest it should be one GREAT-GRACE, that dwells in the city of Good-confidence, they betook themselves to their heels, and left this good man to shift for himself.
Now, after awhile, LITTLE-FAITH came to himself; and getting up, made shift to scrabble on his way. This was the story."
ホウプフル しかし、その連中は持っていたものをことごとくまきあげたのですか。
クリスチャン いや、宝石をしまっておいたところはさぐられなかったので、それはまだ持っていました。
Hope. But did they take from him all that ever he had?
Chr. No; the place where his jewels were they never ransacked, so those he kept still;
天路歴程277 賊は金の大部分を持っていき宝石だけ残った The thieves got most of his spending money. That which they got not were jewels
but, as I was told, the good man was much afflicted for his loss, for the thieves got most of his spending money. That which they got not (as I said) were jewels; also he had a little odd money left, but scarce enough to bring him to his journey's end;
"And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?" ~ 1 Peter 4:18 ~