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Like the early Reformers, moreover, they were reluctant to use non-biblical language in the formulation of normative doctrine—although they invariably radicalized the point: whereas Calvin, for example, readily admitted that the trinitarian vocabulary was not strictly biblical while at the same time recognizing its usefulness against heresy, the antitrinitarian writers, from Servetus and Gentile to the Socini, were convinced that the non-biblical language was to be utterly excluded and, by way of extension of the point, that several of the early heresies were closer to the truth than Niceno-Constantinopolitan orthodoxy.