Split hoof = walk both ways; cud = ponder doctrines

Cyril: …sufficing for those needing, and having been very eager to finish-out very well the things upon which God would be gladdened. So then is not somehow twofold the manner of the justice, unto both ourselves, and indeed also unto others being set-upright?

Palladius: It seems so.

Cyril: So then with a split hoof, or a cloven of a foot, the law somehow always likens such a one. For a foot always would be a symbol and type for us of the practical journey according to energy; and indeed we say, to dart-through with a straight foot, those being very eager to go blamelessly toward the finishing unto benefit. And somewhere also David sings-up: ‘For my foot stood in straightness,’ (Romans 3:15–16) that is, I have walked in justice and straightness; and I have hated the having-been-twisted. And about at least the sin-loving ones: ‘Sharp their feet to pour-out blood, and crushing and misery in their ways.’ (Psalm 26:12) So then of the journey in works a symbol the foot. And a cloven at least would be a clear type of our being able to walk upon both rightly and unrebukably, unto the according to ourselves, and indeed also unto others.

Palladius: Persuasive the word.

Cyril: So then if somehow there should be someone, knowing to walk upon both rightly and knowledgeably, able to benefit both himself and others, I say by the quality of the customs, and toward this at least, thoughtful and most prudent, and giving the heart as it were some lodging and dwelling for the words about God, always somehow turning up and down in himself the thoughts of the divine doctrines, and through this densely and prudently to search-out, thinning-down somehow the thus of the thoughts having been known accurately, he will altogether somehow have resembled an animal bringing-up the chewing, and always belching-up the nourishment in a belly, and leading-under to the teeth, in order that it may also still be ground-fine, and by the thin of the digestion may go toward benefit.

Palladius: You speak well.

Cyril: And he says the animal is clean, which ever should have the foot finishing toward a splitting hoof, and again bring-back the chewing in a belly; for the one having been naturally both excellent and good unto himself and others, and having taken-on also the word-loving and the practiced unto knowledge, clear that the upon God, will be complete toward virtue, and having blamelessly at least in the according to himself, toward every whatever of the having-been-wondered; and if somehow someone should become a sharer of such, I say according to learning, and as it were somehow feast-down the word from him, and if he should become an imitator, and should choose to zeal the thus distinguished and exceptional, he will be unprofane and clean. For he will live-with a clean one, and will show-out at once his own manner as it were some impress of the understanding and good-learning in him. This, I think, is the needing for us to eat from every animal naturally splitting the foot into a hoof, and bringing-up’ (Leviticus 11:3)