62 Josep Rius-Camps and Jenny Read-Heimerdinger the focus had since shifted to Peter who has been in the spotlight from 10:9 and continues to be so. The omission of the article views Cornelius as a character who is not yet established in the story, and as offstage at this point; he will be brought fully into the action when the men present him to Peter (10:22; cf. arthrous mention, 10:24, 25 D05, 30). διερωτήσαντεϛ B P74 ) rell ‖ ἐπ- D, inquirentes d. The verb διερωτάω of B03 is a hapax of the New Testament, meaning ‘find by enquiry’14. The alternative ἐπερωτάω is frequent in the New Testament and, like ἐρωτάω, means simply ‘enquire’ though the idea of ‘persistently’ is implied by the prefix. 18 ἐπύθοντο B C | ἐπυνθάνοντο D, interrogabant d P45.74 ) rell. While B03 reads the aorist of πυνθάνομαι, D05 has the imperfect with the result of underlining the concurrence of the enquiries of the men from Cornelius at the gate and the questioning of Peter at the top of the house. 19 (εἶπεν) τὸ πνεῦμα B ‖ αὐτῷ τ. πν. D d P45 E H4 L P Ψ 049. 056. 33. 1739 M it sy | τ. πν. αὐ. P74 ) A C 6. 36. 69. 81. 181. 431. 453. 1175. 1898 pc vg. Within the book of Acts, Luke usually specifies the addressee (as a noun or pronoun) after verbs of speaking but there are times when the addressee is implied from the context; whether or not the addressee is specified varies 23 times between B03 and D0515. In the non-variant text, when the addressee is specified by the narrator the preposition πρόϛ + noun/pronoun in the accusative is most commonly used to signal the outset of a dialogue, as a means of establishing the relationship between speaker and hearer. When the dative case of the noun/pronoun is used instead, it is because the conversation is already underway. At places where only one of B03 or D05 specifies the addressee, this pattern is maintained as clearly as in the common text. Here, it is D05 that specifies Peter as the addressee of the Spirit’s words with the dative pronoun αὐτῷ, placing it in the emphatic position before the verb ()01 reads the more usual order). The use of the dative rather than πρόϛ + accusative pronoun suggests that Luke views the dialogue between Peter and the Spirit as W. Bauer, A Greek English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian 14 Literature (ed. and trans. W.F. Arndt and F.W. Gingrich [B-A-G]; Chicago: Chicago Uni- versity Press, 1957). Read-Heimerdinger, The Bezan Text, 176–182 [N.B. p. 182: 7.1 should be added to the 15 first list of Bezan readings and 10.22 to the second].