(16) A knowledge of languages is an efficacious cure for an ignorance of literal signs. Men who know the Latin language, whom I have now begun to teach, have need of two others in order to understand the Sacred Scriptures. These are Hebrew and Greek, by which they may turn back to the originals if the infinite variances of Latin translators cause any uncertainty. And yet, in these books we may often come upon Hebrew words that have not been translated, such as Amen, Alleluia, Raca, Hosanna,