“Before His generation He was not” (πρὶν γεννηθῆναι οὐκ ἦν).  Compare with this Cyril’s repeated assertions that “the Son is eternally begotten, by an inscrutable and incomprehensible generation Cat. xi. § 4.,” “the Son of God before all ages, without beginning § 5.,” that “time intervenes not in the generation of the Son from the Father § 7..”