154 Josep Rius-Camp and Jenny Read-Heimerdinger prepositional prefix allows the dative of the following noun to be used without a further preposition. The simple verb λ μπω read by B03 is more common but on the four occasions it is used by the LXX it is never associated with light from God. πατ ξα B P74vid ) rell ‖ ν ξα D 1243. 2344, pungens d gig syp.h mae; Lcf Chr. πατ σσω, the reading of B03, is shared by all Greek MSS and, while it can mean to give a light push, it also has a stronger meaning and is the verb used to describe the killing of Herod (12:23), as indeed the killing of the first-born at the Passover, the paradigm for the present incident. D05 avoids any ambiguous echo of that scene by using ν σσω instead. α το α λ σει κ τ ν χειρ ν B P74 ) rell, eius catenae de manibus d ‖ α λ. κ τ. χειρ. α το D gig p r vg syp sa mae aeth; Lcf Ephr. B03 associates ‘the chains’ with Peter, whereas D05 reads the posses- sive pronoun with ‘the hands’. 8 (ε πεν) δ B D d E H Ψ 049. 36. 81*. 88. 453. 614. 618. 945. 1175. 1270. 1611. 1739. 1891. 2412 al lat syh ‖ τε P74 ) A L P 056. 33 M. )01 with τε considers the continuation of the angel’s words as complementing what had already been said. Both B03 and D05 view it as a new development. 9 ( δ κει) δ B P74 )2 rell | om. )* a aeth ‖ γ ρ D d 36. 453. 431. 1828 pc gig p r vgDOT syp sa mae. In both B03 and D05, the narrator makes a parenthetical comment but whereas B03 makes a descriptive comment with δ looking forward to the following narrative (cf. v. 11 when he becomes sure that he was not just seeing things), D05 looks back with γ ρ to explain what he has just said, i.e. that Peter did not know that what was happening was really true25. 10 (πρ την) φυλακ ν κα δευτ ραν B P74 ) rell ‖ κ. δευτ. φυλ. D d 2401 gig p r vg syp.h; Lcf Chr. The word order of the two cardinal adjectives and the noun varies: B03 separates the two adjectives and thereby treats the two prisons as separate and as unexpected to some extent; D03, in contrast, keeps the adjectives together, thus linking the prisons together and regarding their 25 Levinsohn, Textual Connections, 91; Read-Heimerdinger, The Bezan Text, 244–45.