LUKE 11:52 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.”
The mustard seed grows from the smallest of seeds into a large enough tree that the birds of the air nest in its branches — Daniel 4:12 and Ezekiel 17:23 both use the bird-sheltering tree as an image of a kingdom that provides refuge to the nations. The kingdom that begins with a handful of Galilean disciples will grow into the sheltering presence that all peoples can inhabit.
Church Fathers on Luke 11:52
A reproof which exalts the meek is generally hateful to the proud man. When therefore our Savior was blaming the Pharisees for transgressing from the right path, the body of Lawyers were struck with consternation. Hence it is said, Then answered one of the lawyers, and said to him, Master, thus saying you reproach us also.
In what a grievous state is that conscience, which hearing the word of God thinks it a reproach against itself, and in the account of the punishment of the wicked perceives its own condemnation.
Now the Lawyers were different from the Pharisees. For the Pharisees being separated from the rest had the appearance of a religious sect; but those skilled in the Law were the Scribes and Doctors who solved legal questions.
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