SEV Biblia, Chapter 11:52
¡Ay de vosotros, doctores de la ley! Que os tomasteis la llave de la ciencia; vosotros mismos no entrasteis, y a los que entraban impedisteis.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Luke 11:52
Verse 52. Ye have taken away the key of knowledge] By your traditions ye have taken away the true method of interpreting the prophecies: ye have given a wrong meaning to those scriptures which speak of the kingdom of the Messiah, and the people are thereby hindered from entering into it. See on Matt. xxiii. 13.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 52. Woe unto you lawyers , etc.] Who are particularly addressed again in distinction from the Pharisees, though much the same things are said to them both in ( Matthew 23:13) for ye have taken away the key of knowledge ; of the Scriptures, of the law, and the prophets, and the true interpretation of them, and especially of such places as refer to the Messiah, and the Gospel dispensation, called the kingdom of heaven, ( Matthew 23:13) they had not only arrogated the knowledge of these to themselves, setting up for the only interpreters of the sacred writings; but they had took away from the people the true knowledge and sense of them, by their false glosses upon them, so that they were destroyed for lack of knowledge: and hence came that famine of hearing the word, which they say should be before the coming of the King Messiah, and now was. The Syriac and Arabic versions read, the keys of knowledge; and the Ethiopic version, the key of righteousness. The Jews sometimes speak of the keys of the law, and represent the oral law as the root and key of the written law f389 : but, alas! it was by the oral law, or traditions of the elders, that they took away the key, or obscured the true sense of the written law. Some think, that here is an allusion to the custom of delivering a key to any one, when he was ordained or promoted to the dignity of a doctor: it is said of R. Samuel f390 , that when he died they put, wjtpm , his key, and his writing book into his coffin, because he was not worthy of a son to succeed him: ye entered not in yourselves ; into the kingdom of heaven, the Gospel dispensation, neither receiving doctrines, nor submitting to its ordinances: and them that were entering in ye hindered ; by reproaching the miracles and ministry of Christ; by threatenings and excommunications; (see Gill on Matthew 23:13).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 37-54 - We should all look to our hearts, that they may be cleansed an new-created; and while we attend to the great things of the law and of the gospel, we must not neglect the smallest matter God has appointed When any wait to catch something out of our mouths, that they ma insnare us, O Lord, give us thy prudence and thy patience, an disappoint their evil purposes. Furnish us with such meekness an patience that we may glory in reproaches, for Christ's sake, and tha thy Holy Spirit may rest upon us __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
ουαι 3759 INJ υμιν 5213 P-2DP τοις 3588 T-DPM νομικοις 3544 A-DPM οτι 3754 CONJ ηρατε 142 5656 V-AAI-2P την 3588 T-ASF κλειδα 2807 N-ASF της 3588 T-GSF γνωσεως 1108 N-GSF αυτοι 846 P-NPM ουκ 3756 PRT-N εισηλθετε 1525 5627 V-2AAI-2P και 2532 CONJ τους 3588 T-APM εισερχομενους 1525 5740 V-PNP-APM εκωλυσατε 2967 5656 V-AAI-2P
Robertson's NT Word Studies
11:52 {Ye took away the key of knowledge} (erate ten kleida tes gnwsews). First aorist active indicative of air", common verb. But this is a flat charge of obscurantism on the part of these scribes (lawyers), the teachers (rabbis) of the people. They themselves (autoi) refused to go into the house of knowledge (beautiful figure) and learn. They qen locked the door and hid the key to the house of knowledge and hindered (ekwlusate, effective aorist active) those who were trying to enter (tous eisercomenous, present participle, conative action). It is the most pitiful picture imaginable of blind ecclesiastics trying to keep others as blind as they were, blind leaders of the blind, both falling into the pit.
