MAR ABDISHO (EBED IESU), Interpretation of the Service of the MysteriesVatican Borg. sir 88, f.199b-204h[1] Our Saviour handed down to us the term “Mysteries” concerning the mystical things in the bread and thewine, indicating the incorruptible Body; and the Cup, the precious Blood, for purification and forforgiveness, and for union with Him. “Whoever eats of my body and drinks of my blood remains in me and Iin him” (Jn 6:56), and “he will not come to judgment; rather, he has moved over from death to eternal life”(Jn 5:25).[2] The fact that we perform the Mysteries on Sunday and on Friday is a canon of the Apostles. On Friday,since man was created on it and on it our Saviour suffered. On Sunday, as a demonstration of hisresurrection and because creation came into being on it at the beginning; and on it the resurrection andrenewal will take place.[3] The single marmitha which is said at the beginning of the Mysteries (consists) of three psalms; thisindicates the oneness of the divine nature and the trinity of persons (qnome); as, with the term “Mystery” ithints at the union of the divine and human nature in the single prosopon of Christ, the Son of the living God.“Thus should you be doing whenever you are gathered, in memory of me” (Lk 22:19; 1 Co. 11:25).[4] The Hullala and Halleluia: (this) indicates the exaltation of the divine nature, and not “Praise the (divine)Essence”, as some people have interpreted, without any (proper) examination. For it hall(w) is explained asshabbah(w), then what is to be found in the Gospel is without meaning: “Those shepherds returned praising(msabbhin) and glorifying (mhallin) God” (Lk 2:20). For it is absurd to say “praising and praising”,(whereas) it is fitting and proper to say “praising and exalting God”, as in the Septuagint rendering (wherein) the qanona of the company of Hananiah, it is written “praise him and glorify him for ever" (Dn. 3:57f),which is rendered in the Peshitta “praise him and exalt him for ever”. [5] If “Praise...