Here is the result of searching (in all of Torah) Roshei Teivot, every 3rd letter of successive words, for אבנר:
I don't recall the story exactly but that one of Naimonides' students had jettisoned his Jewish heritage and converted; Later he approached Naimonides and the student, of considerable status by now, confronted and put to test the faith of his x-teacher (Naimonides); He questioned the truth of Naimonides' assertion that all people are mentioned in the parsha of Ha'azinu. He, the student, could never find it so it cannot be a true teaching.
Naimonides asked Hashem in prayer to send him a prophetic vision, and when said spiritual revelation materialized he gave the student the answer to his riddle and, also miraculously, the words foretold this student's demise. For the student, in order to rectify his past weighty, sinful "luggage", he had to disappear. In fact, his destiny remained undiscovered. The meaning of these 4 words is, "I will terminate them, eradicate their remembrance from mankind".
UPDATE: Here's a wonderful lecture on this story of the Ramban, and the correct version of it: LINK
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