Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

St Luke 11:46-52 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

46. But he said: Woe to you lawyers also, because you load men with burdens which they cannot bear, and you yourselves touch not the packs with one of your fingers.

47. Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them.

48. Truly you bear witness that you consent to the doings of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and you build their sepulchres.

49. For this cause also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute.

50. That the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation,

51. From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who was slain between the alter and the temple: Yea I say to you, It shall be required of this generation.

52. Woe to you lawyers, for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you yourselves have not entered in, and those that were entering in, you have hindered.