be treated with great care if we are to make sense of ancient, or even early modern, documents.8 That said, in this redefinition there was an assumption that the word “person” meant the same thing when applied to human and divine realities. Thus, the doctrine of analogy was denied in favor of a claim that words are univocal, and I do take this to be a problem (again, more on this later). Words change their meaning over time, and if we want to understand what a writer is saying, we need to know what