The Variant Readings of the Western Text of the Acts of the Apostles 143 καὶ (παρακαλῶν) B P74 ‫ א‬A C E 33. 81. 88. 614. 618. 927. 945. 1175. 1270. 1505. 1611. 1739. 1891. 2147. 2344. 2412. 2495, et d gig || om. D H L P 049. 056 M aeth; Ephr Chr.— αὐτόν B P74 ‫ א‬rell || om. D d 1022. 1245 gig; Ephr Chr. In D05, the Macedonian is the subject of the main verb ὤφθη of which Paul is the indirect object (see above), as well as of the two participles παρακαλῶν καὶ λέγων of which Paul is also the implied object; the pronoun is not generally repeated after the verb παρακαλέω or verbs of saying if it has already been specified (see Read-Heimerdinger, ‘The Tracking of Participants with the Third Person Pronoun’, pp. 442–443). The different construction in B03, however, means that the Macedonian is not the subject of ὤφθη, and thus Paul needs to be specified as the object of the participle παρακαλῶν, which, furthermore, requires a con- nection to the previous main verb ἦν with καί. 16:10 ὡς δὲ τὸ ὅραμα εἶδεν B P74 ‫ א‬rell || διεγερθεὶς οὖν διηγήσατο τ. ὅρ. ἡμῖν D, exsurgens ergo enarravit visum nobis d sa. D05 makes explicit that Paul related the vision to his companions, the ‘we’-group, here introduced for the first time in the present context, though obliquely with the dative pronoun. B03 leaves this information implicit. These vll account for the following ones. εὐθέως ἐζητήσαμεν ἐξελθεῖν εἰς Μακεδονίαν συμβιβάζοντες (ὅτι) B P74 ‫ א‬rell || καὶ ἐνοήσαμεν D, et intellegimus d.— (προσκέκληται ἡμᾶς) ὁ θεός B P74 (– ἡμᾶς ‫א )*א‬2 A C E Ψ 33. 36. 81. 181. 307. 453. 610. 945. 1175. 1678. 1739. 1837. 1891. 2344 al it vg bo; Hier || ὁ κύριος D, domi- nus d H L P 049. 056. 614 M c (gig) syp.h sa; Irlat Chr.— (εὐαγγελίσασθαι) αὐτούς B P74 ‫ א‬rell || τοὺς ἐν Μακεδονίᾳ D, qui in Macedonia sunt d. Following on from the previous variant, B03 now introduces the ‘we’-group with the first person plural of the verb ζητέω, suggesting that Paul is included in the group as they seek without further ado to go to Macedonia in accordance with their understanding (συμβιβάζοντες, present participle) that God called them to evangelize them (as elsewhere in Luke, the third person plural pronoun is to be understood as meaning the inhabitants of a place, cf. Delebecque, Les deux Actes, p. 209). The choice of the verb συμβιβάζω is potentially ambiguous: as a transitive verb, it expresses in its figurative sense the idea of ‘convincing, instruct- ing, advising’ someone (Bailly, 2; B-A-G, 3), which implies that the ‘we’- group acted as guides to Paul (as in D05, see below), though without him being specified as the object of the verb; it can also be used intransitively, with the sense of ‘inferring, concluding’, (Bailly, 3; B-A-G, 2), which is probably the sense intended here – even though the aorist participle could