But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in [yourselves], neither suffer ye that are entering to go in. Here they are charged with skutting 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 bright knowledge of God's revealed word is eternal life, as our Lord says (John 17:3, and Matthew 23:39); but this they took away from the people, substituting for it their wretched traditions.