The Variant Readings of the Western Text of the Acts of the Apostles 153 much the same sense but without being a technical term for the procla- mation of the gospel, in the way that the verb of D05 is. The reading of ὑμῖν in both B03 and D05 is also to be considered erroneous and arising through itacism (pace Metzger, Commentary, p. 396), at least in D05 since exegetes are content to accept it in the usual text: there, the slave girl is addressing Paul and the demonstrative οὗτοι refers to the ‘we’-group alone (cf. previous variant); by ἡμῖν the slave girl means herself and those whom she represents, παιδίσκη τις (v. 16). The only other people mentioned that she could have been speaking to are τοῖς κυρίοις (vv. 16, 19), but there is no indication that they are present in this scene in D05. 16:18 διαπονηθεὶς δὲ Παῦλος καὶ ἐπιστρέψας τῷ πνεύματι (εἶπεν) B P45.74 ‫ א‬A || διαπ. δὲ ὁ Παῦ. κ. ἐπ. τ. πν. C E H L P Ψ 049. 056. 33. 1739 M || ἐπιστρέψας δὲ ὁ Παῦ. τ. πν. κ. διαπ. D (conversus autem Paulus in spiritu et cum indoluisset d); Ambr. The article is omitted before Paul in B03 as the focus switches back to him after a temporary focus on the slave girl (cf. 16:17, where the article was also omitted in B03 as he was viewed through the eyes of the slave girl). In D05, Paul has been in focus throughout this scene (unlike the previous scene with Lydia, where she was the main concern in D05, cf. on 16:14 above). The order of the two aorist participles differs in B03 and D05. Al- though little, if anything, can be inferred about the time sequence of successive aorist participles preceding a finite verb (since, being timeless, they may denote coincident action, see, e.g., Robertson, Grammar, pp. 1112–1114), B03 seems to have understood the two verbs as expressing successive action and preferred to present the more logical sequence of Paul becoming troubled and then turning to the spirit. The order in D05, in contrast, does not express time sequence: it presents the main action supporting the finite verb (εἶπεν) as Paul’s turning (ἐπιστρέψας) to the spirit, and his distress (διαπονηθείς, where the aorist expresses an inner state as a global situation and not as a past event) as a pivot that accounts for his action of ‘turning and saying’. The Latin page d5 has understood τῷ πνεύματι as a reference to the spirit of Paul. τῷ (ὀνόματι) D H L P Ψ 049. 056 M || om. B P74 ‫ א‬A C E 33. 81. 614. 927. 945. 1270. 1505. 1611. 1739. 1837. 1891. 2344. 2412. 2495.— ἐξελθεῖν (ἀπ’ αὐτῆς) B P45.74 ‫ א‬rell || ἵνα ἐξέλθῃς D, ut exeas d e gig; Lcf | ἔξελθε 33vid. The omission of the article in B03 is the only occasion when ὄνομα in the phrase ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ is anarthrous (cf. 2:38; 3:6;