Woe unto you, lawyers! for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in you hindered.
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Clement Of Rome
AD 99
The scribes also, and Pharisees, are led away into another schism; but these, being baptized by John, and holding the word of truth received from the tradition of Moses as the key of the kingdom of heaven, have hid it from the hearing of the people.
Which the scribes and Pharisees, having received the key of knowledge, had not shut in, but shut out.
Far be such a supposition from us. For He did not act impiously; but since they hid the knowledge of the kingdom,