or through literal and figurative usage. Rather, the word must apply to both univocally, or by gradation, which is itself a form of univocal predication. Thus, one cannot say, “This is more corporeal than that,” while referring to the density of one and the size of the other. Rather, the term must apply to both meanings univocally.

The eighth response is that he said, “No one is more jealous than Allah,” just as he said, “No one loves praise more than Allah, and no one loves excuses more than