{Ye took away the key of knowledge} ((8872)ate t(886e) kleida t(8873)
gn(9373)e(9373)). First aorist active indicative of air(935c), common verb.
But this is a flat charge of obscurantism on the part of these
scribes (lawyers), the teachers (rabbis) of the people. They
themselves (autoi) refused to go into the house of knowledge
(beautiful figure) and learn. They then locked the door and hid
the key to the house of knowledge and hindered (ek(936c)usate,
effective aorist active) those who were trying to enter (	ous
eiserchomenous, present participle, conative action). It is the
most pitiful picture imaginable of blind ecclesiastics trying to
keep others as blind as they were, blind leaders of the blind,
both falling into the pit.