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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Matthew 23:13 - 23:13
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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 Luk 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 (Joh 17:3; Joh 5:39); but this they took away from the people, substituting for it their wretched traditions.