FRAGMENTA EX OPERIBUS DOGMATICIS S. CYRILLI DEPERDITIS.
I. ON THE DEFECT OF THE SYNAGOGUE OR THE TRANSNOMINATION OF ABRAM TO ABRAHAM.
ADe Saint Cyril, from the book entitled: "Demonstration from divine oracles formerly issued to the renowned patriarchs concerning the change and translation of the Jews and the Gentiles."
The transnomination of Abraham is taken as signifying the trinitarian number of the divine hypostases; for when the renowned patriarch was called Abram, he was divinely renamed Abraham. If anyone should wish to interpret this: if he takes the initial letter of the name, the A, together with the letter joined and adjacent to it—I mean the B—and by transposing the other A which is after the R, he will certainly find that it signifies "Father," for *aba*, surely, is translated as "Father." And if again he should wish to explain the second letter in position, I mean the B, separately, and then with the R which is joined and adjacent to it, he will again find, by similarly transposing the same A, exactly that it signifies "Son," for *bar*, surely, is translated as "Son." And if he should wish to read the final letter, I mean the M, together with the letter joined and adjacent to it, it has come to pass that the Synagogue of the Jews has fallen through [their] unbelief… B
C…concerning the change and translation of the Jews and the Gentiles. A Of Saint Cyril, from the book whose title is: "Demonstration from divine oracles formerly issued to the renowned patriarchs concerning the change and translation of the Jews and the Gentiles."
We have discovered that the ternarian number of the divine, sublime persons is signified by the transnomination of Abraham. For when the renowned patriarch was called Abram, he was divinely transnominated to Abraham. If one wishes to interpret this, he will find that the first letter of the name, A, when joined to the one adjacent to it, B, as well as by making a transposition of the other A, which is after the R, signifies "father": for we translate *aba* as "father." If he should wish, again, to explain the second letter in rank, I mean the B, separately and then with the R to which it is united, he will find—again by casting out the R after the A—the signification of "son." For *bar* stands in the place of "son." But if one should wish to read and explain the final letter, that is to say M, with its adjacent A in the contrary order, he will find, having assumed the same R at the same time, he will find, I say, the meaning "most high": for in reality *mar* is explained as... D