It's considered scholarly to learn multiple languages.
Ed loves to read the Bible and is considering pursuing a career in Biblical studies, but doesn't like language learning much.
Ed wants to become a Bible scholar.
Ed pursues a career as a Bible scholar and makes efforts to learn Greek and Hebrew in the process.
Ed takes courses on Bible scholarship and avoids any of the connected languages such as Greek and Hebrew.
Ed is able to help with a prestigious Bible translation project and helps people through it.
Other scholars don't take Ed seriously because he cannot read the original Bible texts.