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Their Interpretation and Exposition
There's no doubt that the Scribes were diligent about preserving The written
Word. They even went through painstaking methods of copying the Torah. Yet,
they were intent on discovering hidden meanings not only in every word, but in
every syllable and every letter of every word. Their investigation of the letter
of the law was destructive of all spiritual instruction.
Jesus clearly denounced peoples dependence upon the "tradition of the elders" (Mark 7:7,8) and he pronounced Woe to those "lawyers" who had taken away the key of knowledge, entering not in themselves, and
hindering those who are trying to enter.
When the Bible says that after Jesus had spoken they had been "astonished at His doctrine, for he taught them as one having authority, and
not as their Scribes" (Matt. 7:28-29), there's no doubt about the contrast of Jesus teaching and
that of the Scribes.