76 Josep Rius-Camps and Jenny Read-Heimerdinger ΤΟΝ ΘΝ (as indeed happens again in line 23 when ΥΣ is dropped from ΚΩΛΥΣΑΙ to produce ΚΩΛΑΙ). The omission becomes obvious when line 21 (23 letters) is compared with the space that would be taken up if the whole sentence of line 22 were included (34 letters) which, as it stands, is already longer than the previous line (by 5.5 letters); 3) d05 read ΚΕΝΑΙΣ and translated it literally by praevaricatis; 4) DA, realising that the reading ‘empty languages’ was nonsense, deleted ΚΕΝΑΙΣ in agreement with the AT reading and rewrote the sentence, ΓΛΩΣΣΑΙΣ ΚΑΙ ΜΕΓΑΛΥΝΟΝΤΩΝ ΤΟΝ ΘΝ; but this caused a space to be left of 2/3 letters (which is visible between the first legible letters ΓΛΩΣΣΑΙΣΚΑΙΜΕΓΑΛΥ, and the last ones that are partially legible ΝΤΩΝΤΟΝΘΝ); 5) Dcj., which is our reconstruction of how the original intended the line to read, reinserts the sound omitted through haplography, ΓΛΩΣΣΑΙΣ ΚΑΙ ΜΕΓΑΛΥΝΟΝ<ΤΩΝ> ΤΟΝ ΘΝ; 6) The conjecture ∆ΟΞΑΖΟΝΤΩΝ46 proposed so as to overcome the problem of the length of ΜΕΓΑΛΥΝΟΝΤΩΝ (the available space is 23/24 letters rather than the necessary 29) overlooks the fact that d05 always translates δοξάζειν in Acts by clarificare (Acts 3:13; 4:21; 11:18; 21:20; in Luke’s Gospel, the translator uses a variety of expressions: honorificare [Lk. 2:20; 5:20; 7:16; 13:13; 23:47], honorare [17:15], gloriam accipere [4:15]) while the translator of both Luke and Acts always renders μεγαλύνειν by magnificare (Lk. 1:46, 58; Acts 5:13; 10:46 d05; 19:17). τότε ἀπεκρίθη (+ ὁ E Ψ M) Πέτροϛ B P74 ) rell ‖ εἶπεν δὲ ὁ Π. D d syp aeth. The reading of B03 expresses a response to the situation47, presenting Peter as taking a decisive and conclusive step as he initiates the act of baptizing Cornelius and his household with a rhetorical question. D05 reserves this decisive response until after he has considered the question (see final vl in 10:48 below). The absence of the article before Peter’s name in B03 is a typical practice in that MS when an apostle is named as he is about to speak (cf. on 10:21). D05 does not highlight the speaker in this way except twice, when Peter speaks for the first time to a Gentile audience (cf. 10:34) and then when he reports this incident to the brethren in Jerusalem (cf. 11:4). The presence of the article in D05 at this point tallies with the fact that Peter’s words that follow are not viewed as a declaration in the Bezan text but are more of a discussion in an aside (see also below on τούτουϛ/ αὐτούϛ in this verse). Boismard and Lamouille, II, p. 76. 46 Read-Heimerdinger, The Bezan Text, 215. 47