Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men—Here they are charged with shutting heaven against men: in Luke 11:52 they are charged with what was worse, taking away the key—"the key of knowledge"—which means, not the key to open knowledge, but knowledge as the only key to open heaven. A right knowledge of God's revealed word is eternal life, as our Lord says (John 17:3; John 5:39); but this they took away from the people, substituting for it their wretched traditions.
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Luke 11:52
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