106 Josep Rius-Camp and Jenny Read-Heimerdinger Salamis is the port where the disciples would have disembarked when they arrived in Cyprus (cf. v. 4). This accounts for the article prefacing the name of the town in D05, for an audience familiar with the geography of the place would know that it was the place at which the disciples were expected to land; there is no need to suppose that the article indicates that either the addressee or Luke knew the place personally. The reading of 01 (εἰϛ + acc. [not dat. Σαλαμίνῃ]) is equivalent of the B03 reading, with εἰϛ expressing the movement of the journey. κατήγγελλον B P74 a rell, adnuntiabant d ‖ -ήγγειλαν D 618. 1245. 1522. 1838 pc vgW; Chrpt.— (τὸν λόγον) τοῦ θεοῦ B P74 a rell, dei d ‖ τ. κυρίου D 623. 1270 gig syp sams; Lcf. The text of B03 presents the missionary group as undertaking the proclamation of the word of God in the synagogues over a certain duration (imperf.) – the statement is a simple description of events. D05 views the matter differently for it presents, first, the proclamation as a global event, as an action taken (aor.), and secondly it describes the word as ‘of the Lord’. Within the Bezan text, there is a clear distinction between the “word of God’ and the ‘word of the Lord’, with the former representing God’s revelation of his commandments as in the Torah and the latter the specific message of or about Jesus. The value ascribed to each is not, however, necessarily maintained in the AT. ὑπηρέτην B P74 a A C H L P Ψ 049. 056. 33. 1739 M ‖ ὑπηρετοῦντα αὐτοῖϛ D, ministrantem eis d 614. 2412 p syhmg sa mae aeth | εἰϛ διακονίαν E (in ministerio vg). The present participle of D05 indicates that John was actively engaged in exercising his role of ‘assistant’ for the benefit of Barnabas and Saul, in contrast to the noun of B03 which rather presents a static state of affairs. 6 ∆ιελθόντεϛ δέ B P74 a (∆ιελθόντων DH) rell, cum pergressi fuissent d ‖ Καὶ περιελθόντων δὲ αὐτῶν D* gig vg; Lcf. The verb of B03 suggests that the island was crossed by an interior route, unlike the implication of the D05 verb that a coastal route round the island was followed. The prefix does not necessarily imply that the island was completed circled12. The genitive absolute in D05 looks, at first sight, incorrect since the subject appears to be the same as that of the main verb13. A closer reading, Delebecque, Les deux Actes, 278. 12 Though Delebecque, Les deux Actes, 202, comments: ‘l’accord du génitif du participe 13 avec le sujet au nominatif est très grec’.