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"His knowledge of Greek is a more complicated question. Opinions vary from very little to a great deal, but the safest conclusion from the evidence of his own works is that he had a limited working knowledge of biblical Greek and, at the end of his life, a very slight working knowledge of patristic Greek. Since he had hated Greek as a schoolboy and had been able to make a perfectly good academic career in Latin-speaking Africa and Italy without any knowledge of the Greek language, Augustine's later knowledge, however limited, must have been the result of study during his life and a presbyter and bishop - an heroic achievement, in view of the unceasing demands made upon his time and energy. But such study could not make him at home in the language or a regular reader of Greek authors, and it is likely that the average theology graduate today knows at least as much Greek as did the great bishop of Hippo." (The Cambridge History of the Bible: The Bible in the Early Church: "Augustine as a biblical scholar" s. 550).