The True Language of the Bible

Throughout Book 2 of Augustine's On Christian Teaching, Saint Augustine claims that in order to understand the full meaning of the Bible one must interpret it in its original context.  The value of one's knowledge of Greek and Hebrew is necessary according to Augustine.  This is important to know because I believe that Augustine is trying to say that in order to worship God in the way he is suppose to be followed, it is hard to completely understand the true meaning of the Bible without knowing these two languages.

In the Book of Psalms, it continually says that worshiping God is vital.  I think that Augustine believes that possibly reading the Psalms, a follower or one that is maybe agnostic or a non-believer  might not be able to concept how to worship God or realize God's splendor.  In my freshman studies course, we examined how Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis is vastly different from it original German text.  Like in freshman studies and in Augustine's opinion, certain words and signs can mean many different things.  Arguably, if one has the knowledge of Hebrew and Greek and were to read the bible in its original point of view, following the lord becomes much clearer.