Who said this quote???? "if we are going to read the bible we need to know the liberal arts" 10 POINTS

Question

"if we are going to read the bible we need to know the liberal arts"

i really need to know who said this

i checked around but didn't find anything

i think that the quoter might have been St. Augustine or some other theologian

thanks alot :)

Answer 1

Martin Luther said something similar -

“First of all, the library should contain Holy Scripture in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, German, and in whatever other languages it may be available.  Then there should be the best and oldest commentators, if I could find them, in Greek, Hebrew, and Latin.  Then books that aid us in acquiring the languages, such as the poets and orators, no matter whether heathen or Christian, Greek or Latin; for these are the books from which one must learn grammar.  Then should come books about the liberal arts and all the other arts; and finally also books of law and of medicine, though here, too, a judicious choice of texts is necessary.

     Among the chief books, however, should be chronicles and histories, in whatever language they may be had.  For they are of wondrous value for understanding and guiding the course of the world, and especially for noting the wonderful works of God.”  [W 15, 51f.]