Josep Rius-Camp and Jenny Read-Heimerdinger 142 D* | commiscere ecclesiam d, congregati sunt syhmg | commiscuerunt se ecclesiae et docebant turbam multam p vgRmg (retroversion: συνεχ θησαν τ κκλησ κα δ δασκον χλ. κ.). The passive of συν γω in B03 is regularly used to express a reflex- ive sense, ‘they assembled’. But since two people could hardly be said to ‘assemble’7 it could equally be a true passive here, with the meaning ‘they were received as guests’8. The infinitive is dependent on γ νετο at the start of the sentence with the dative α το as the subject of the infinitive συναχθ ναι following. A different verb, συγχ ω, is read by D05 meaning literally to ‘pour together’. It is possible that the words ν τ κκλησ κα διδ ξαι have accidentally been omitted9. Alternatively, the reading of D05 may be understood as it stands by taking 1) the pronominal phrase ο τινε παραγεν μενοι referring to Barnabas and Saul as a ‘nominative absolute’10; 2) the subject of the verb συνεχ θησαν, meaning to ‘blur, mingle’11, as the unspecified disciples in Antioch; and 3) the accusative χλον καν ν as an adverbial accusative of manner12. In this way, the entire sentence describes the way in which the Jewish and Gentile disciples were brought together without discrimination as one large gathering for a whole year once Barnabas and Saul arrived in Antioch. The infinitive in DE turns the original construction into an accusative infinitive of which the ‘great crowd’ is the subject. In the MS, where the original is ΣΥΝΕΧΥΘΗΣΑΝ, Corrector E has made several modifica- tions: erased slightly the Ε and written Α over the top of it, then added the syllable ΝΑ above the Χ so as to obtain: ΣΥΝΑΝΑΧΥΘΗ–; at the end, DE has further changed the Σ into Ν, and used the first stroke of the final Ν for Ι and the second stroke for Τ, and finally completed the sentence above the line with ΗΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΚΑΙ∆Ι∆ΑΞΑΙ; the result is practically the reading of the AT: ΣΥΝΑΝΑΧΥΘΗΝΑΙ ΤΗ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΚΑΙ ∆Ι∆ΑΞΑΙ. 7 E. Delebecque, ‘Saul et Luc avant le premier voyage missionaire’, Rev. Sc. ph. th. 66 (1982) 551–59 [552]. 8 K. Lake and H.J. Cadbury, English Translation and Commentary, in Foakes-Jackson and Lake (eds), Beginnings of Christianity, IV, 130. 9 Cf. Delebecque, Les deux Actes, 80; and ‘Saul et Luc avant le premier voyage mis- sionaire’, Rev. Sc. ph. th. 66 (1982) 552, where he does not recognize the original reading of D05*. 10 B-D-R, § 466.4, n. 5: ‘etwas wie ein absoluter nominativ (statt gen. abs.) nach Klass. Art’. 11 L-S-J, συγχ ω. 12 B-D-R, § 160; Mayser, II/2, 328.