Fear and Trembling

"What Tarquin the proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger." - Hamann

Immediately, Kierkegaard, and I am of as now unsure about how I will distinguish between Kierkegaard and Johannes de Silentio, is stating the major themes of Fear and Trembling: 1) That faith has he understands it is a kind of language, a very unique and peculiar kind of language. 2) That this language exists not merely in words, that it is communicated (performed) through particular kinds of actions. 3) That this language can either be understood or mis-understood, and that the nature of this understanding is of fatal importance.

Wittgenstein, Lectures and Conversations, p. 53: Wittgenstein describes this issue of understanding as a kind of gulf that exists between the believer and the non-believer, a gulf which cannot be breached, or at least not in any ordinary way.