The Variant Readings of the Western Text of the Acts of the Apostles (XVI) 67 26 ᾿Ανάστηθι B P74 ) rell ‖ Τί ποιεῖϛ; D d | Τί ποιεῖϛ; ἀνάστηθι p (w) syhmg. Peter’s rebuke is expressed more strongly in the D05 reading (cf. 7:26 D05; 14:15; 21:13), corresponding to the more forceful correction in his following words (see next variant). καὶ ἐγὼ αὐτὸϛ ἄνθρωπόϛ εἰμι B P74 ) rell ‖ κἀγὼ ἄνθρ. εἰ. ὡϛ καὶ σύ D* d (E) it mae bomss. According to B03, Peter makes the point that Cornelius should get up and not worship him because he is a man. In D05, he goes further, putting himself as a Jew on the same level as Cornelius, a Gentile. 27 καὶ συνομιλῶν αὐτῷ εἰσῆλθεν καὶ εὑρίσκει B P74 ) DF rell p vg ‖ καὶ εἰσελθών γε καὶ εὗρεν D* d. The MS of D05 in this verse has been heavily corrected with readings from the AT, and following the participle εἰσελθών, γε has been erased (for which Scrivener reads τε). In the original hand, D05 omits the detail that Peter was talking with Cornelius as he went into his house. In contrast, γε underlines the fact of his entering the house of a Gentile, and the present tense of εὑρίσκει in B03, which expresses Peter’s surprise at finding such a large gathering, is conveyed in D05 by an adverbial καὶ before the same verb in the aorist – the use of καὶ to introduce a finite verb after a participle is common in D05 and corresponds to a moment of particular drama30. 28 ( ῾Υμεῖϛ) ἐπίστασθε B P74 ) rell ‖ βέλτιον ἐπίστασθε DB? (ἐφ- D*) d mae; Aug. D05 qualifies the knowledge of his audience with a comparative adverb serving as an intensifier. ἀνδρὶ (ἀλλοφύλῳ) D P50 syp sa ‖ om. B P74 ) rell d. The presence of ἀνδρί in D05 (omitted by d05) balances the use of ἀνδρί with ᾿Ιουδαίῳ at the beginning of the sentence and thereby confers emphasis31. ὁ θεὸϛ ἔδειξεν (ἐπ- D 440) B D d P50 A C Ψ 33vid M; Irlat ‖ ἔδ. ὁ θεόϛ P74 ) A E 181. 242. 522. 945. 1739. 1891. 2298 pc p vg syM. The word order of )01 is the more usual order of verb–subject; the order subject–verb confers emphasis on ὁ θεόϛ and also has the effect of Read-Heimerdinger, The Bezan Text, 206–10, esp. 209. 30 Contra Parker (Codex Bezae: An Early Christian Manuscript [Cambridge 1994]) 235, 31 who considers it may be an error caused by 10:1 and 17.