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OET (OET-LV) Woe to_you_all the lawyers, because you_all_took_away the key of_the knowledge, yourselves you_all_ not _came_in, and you_all_forbade the ones coming_in.
OET (OET-RV) “You religious law experts won’t end well, because you took away the key to knowledge—not only did you not enter yourselves, but you also forbade others from entering.”
Note 1 topic: translate-unknown
τοῖς νομικοῖς
¬the lawyers
See how you translated lawyers in [11:45](../11/45.md). Alternate translation: [experts in the Jewish law]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ἤρατε τὴν κλεῖδα τῆς γνώσεως
˱you_all˲_took_away the key ˱of˲_the knowledge
Jesus speaks about the knowledge of God’s truth as if it were in a building whose door was locked, and about proper teaching as if it were a key that could unlock that door. Alternate translation: [you prevent people from knowing God’s truth]
Note 3 topic: translate-unknown
τὴν κλεῖδα
the key
A key is a small metal device that opens a lock that is used to keep things like a door, a box, or a drawer closed. If your readers would not know what a key is, you could use the name of a comparable device in your culture.
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
αὐτοὶ οὐκ εἰσήλθατε, καὶ τοὺς εἰσερχομένους ἐκωλύσατε
yourselves not ˱you_all˲_came_in and the_‹ones› coming_in ˱you_all˲_forbade
Jesus continues the metaphor by saying that these experts in the law have not gone into the building where they could learn God’s truth, and they have not given others the key that would allow them to unlock the door and go inside to learn. Alternate translation: [you do not know God’s truth yourselves, and you are preventing others from knowing it as well]
11:52 the key to knowledge: See Matt 16:19; 23:13.
OET (OET-LV) Woe to_you_all the lawyers, because you_all_took_away the key of_the knowledge, yourselves you_all_ not _came_in, and you_all_forbade the ones coming_in.
OET (OET-RV) “You religious law experts won’t end well, because you took away the key to knowledge—not only did you not enter yourselves, but you also forbade others from entering.”
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.