can be found. For example, in the long version of Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love (c. 1395), she says that “than shall our blissid saviour perfectly helyn us and one us to him.”2 The Cloud of Unknowing (late fourteenth century) also speaks of the soul as “onyd Þus to God in spirit.”3 To think of atonement as related to this use of the verb to one suggests a very different linguistic career for the word atonement—being drawn less into the forensic orbit, as actually happened, and instead