75 The Variant Readings of the Western Text of the Acts of the Apostles (XVI) such a declaration in the previous verse (10:44) and at 10:47 that causes the form to be repeated. Finally, the third form read by D05, τὸ πνεῦμα ἅγιον, is unique to Codex Bezae where it is found once more at 13:4. In both instances, the article before πνεῦμα can be accounted for by the pre- vious reference to the Spirit (10:44; 13:2), the form πνεῦμα ἅγιον being the usual way of referring to receiving the Spirit, in particular at baptism (cf. 11:16)45. 46 γλῶσσαιϛ B DD?A? (D* lac.) P74 ) rell ‖ ἑτέραιϛ γλ. vgD sa bopt mae | καιναῖϛ Dcj., praevaricatis d (as if reading ΚΕΝΑΙΣ). For the reading of the versions, cf. Acts 2:4; Isa. 28:11; 1 Cor. 14:21. Examination of f. 458b which contains this verse shows the first line of 10:46, line 21, to be intact and line 22 to be heavily corrected in such a way as to leave the reading of the original hand of D05 practically illegible. It seems that Corrector D(? A?) wrote over the top of the original reading the B03 reading and crossed out the remaining letters that were not covered by his new entry: line 21 ΗΚΟΥΟΝΓΑΡΑΥΤΩΝΛΑΛΟΥΝΤΩΝ line 22 DA ΓΛΩΣΣΑΙΣΚΑΙΜΕΓΑΛΥ ΝΟΝΤΩ ΝΤΟΝΘΝ Elements of the original reading can be deduced, however, from the Latin d05 which has the strange reading of praevaricatis, ‘empty, vain’. This is a rendering of the Greek ΚΕΝΑΙΣ which could have easily been written for ΚΑΙΝΑΙΣ (‘new’) because of the similar sounding vowel. But there is not room to add ΚΕΝΑΙΣ at the front of line 22 as it stands in the MS. It appears that a syllable at the end of the participle was omitted in the original. In the reconstruction below, the letters that are still visible at the end of line 22 are in italics, the second version showing the underlined syllable that could have been omitted by the scribe of D05p.m.: line 22 Dcj. ΚΕΝΑΙΣΓΛΩΣΣΑΙΣΚΑΙΜΕΓΑΛΥΝΟΝΤΩΝΤΟΝΘΝ line 22 D* ΚΕΝΑΙΣΓΛΩΣΣΑΙΣΚΑΙΜΕΓΑΛΥΝΟΝΤΩΝΤΟΝΘΝ The steps that are assumed in this explanation can be set out as follows: 1) Dp.m. wrote ΚΕΝΑΙΣ for ΚΑΙΝΑΙΣ, through itacism; 2) Dp.m., furthermore, omitted through haplography and homoioteleuton the sound ΤΩΝ (ΤΟΝ, in dictation) in the words ΜΕΓΑΛΥΝΟΝΤΩΝ See Read-Heimerdinger, The Bezan Text, 160–61; 170–71. 45