The Trinity and the Processions

Frederick Douglass: I think it's kind of rude to interpolate a phrase into an ecumenical. Matter of the procedural matter of should that phrase have been added and then after being added be defended as an addition from one side. The word Trinity in English sounds to us very technical, precise, it sounds mathematical, maybe it sounds Catholic. But tracing it back and trying to find the first use of the English word Trinity, you end up back in English Saxon land with the word threnes.