Augustine and Psalms

A point that could be used to interpret the Psalms from Augustine's On Christian Teaching is the whole point about signs. Signs are essentially like symbols in the sense that they stand for something else, or rather divert the attention on themselves to elsewhere. Signs "cause something else besides themselves to be known from them" (30). I feel that this point of signs from Augustine could be used to interpret the Psalms because I think that if one wants to better understand the Psalms, one must understand that many of the words used are signs themselves. The words of the Psalms are the "signs by which people communicate their feelings to one another concern[ing] the eyes" (31). These words in the Psalms are signs that signify something else besides themselves, so to understand them better is to perhaps try and understand what they signify first. I feel that if one were to understand what these words mean or signs signify that it would help one in the process of interpreting the Psalms. If these words, which are written signs, used in the Psalms brings something else to mind other than itself, then understanding the new concept brought to mind would help in understanding the original concept. That original concept is the Psalm itself so the usage of signs would eventually be helpful in the process of interpreting the Psalms.