On the Falling Away of the Synagogue · §3 · Cyril of Alexandria

The Most High and the Holy Spirit

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he will again discover, in reverse order and gathering in the same rho, a grouping that signifies Most High — for ‘mar’ is plainly translated most high — a title that hints at the person of the all-holy Spirit, since the term teaches us indirectly that he is God by nature and truly exists. For the Most High is by nature nothing else but altogether God by nature.

Since this renaming, then, was given to the patriarch by God, there has been found

Greek

76.1424 πάλιν ἀνθυποστρόφως εὑρήσει κατὰ σύλληψιν τοῦ αὐτοῦ ρ, σημαῖνον ὕψιστος· ἑρμηνεύεται γὰρ δηλονότι τὸ μὰρ, ὕψιστος· ὅπερ τοῦ παναγίου Πνεύματος αἰνίττεται τὴν ὑπόστασιν· Θεὸν αὐτὸν πεφυκέναι καὶ εἶναι περιφραστικῶς ἡμᾶς διδασκούσης τῆς λέξεως· οὐδὲν γὰρ ἕτερον ὁ ὕψιστος πέφυκεν, ἀλλ' ἢ πάντως κατὰ φύσιν Θεός. Ταύτης οὖν ὑπὸ Θεοῦ τῷ πατριάρχῃ δοθείσης ἀντωνομασίας, εὕρηται