Latin rhetoricians and jurists used “accommodation” (Lat. accommodatio) for the process of adapting, fitting, and adjusting language to the needs and capacities of their hearers. This meant accounting for an audience’s situation, character, intelligence, and emotional state. Rhetorically trained early church theologians such as Origen, Chrysostom, and Augustine used the concept when dealing with difficulties in the Bible. Calvin a classicist, expanded this and used accommodation to