The Variant Readings of the Western Text of the Acts of the Apostles 127 Critical Apparatus 14.21 Εὐαγγελισάμενοί τε τὴν πόλιν ἐκείνην B P45 )2(om. )*: h.t. πόλιν … πόλιν 1241) C L Ψ 049. 056. (33). 1739 M | -ζόμενοί τε τ. πόλ. ἐκ. P74 A H P 88. 330 pc | -ζόμενοι δέ τ. πόλ. ἐκ. E (1243) || Εὐαγγελιζόμενοι δὲ τοὺϛ ἐν τῇ πόλει D (Evangelizantes autem in illa civitate d gig h syp). The three variant readings in this clause function together. B03 links the start of the return journey to the previous sentence with τε. If this is the particle intended (that is, it does not arise through phonetic con- fusion with δέ, see Structure and Themes above; cf. Read-Heimerdinger, The Bezan Text, pp. 205–206), it tends to accord greater importance to Paul and Barnabas’ return to Lystra (the main verb of this clause) than their journey to Derbe (the action of the previous clause), and causes the visit to Derbe to take on a secondary importance. As a connective, τε should probably not be taken in associaition with the following καί to mean ‘both ... and’. The aorist tense of the participle εὐαγγελισάμενοι has the same effect of playing down the importance of the visit to Derbe, for it stands as a simple statement of the action undertaken in there before the return journey to Lystra was made. Furthermore, the object of the participle is ‘that town’, viewed as a collective noun without an overt reference to the people. D05, in contrast, separates this new sentence from the previous one with δέ, and thus allows the start of the return journey to mark the begin- ning of a new sequence that groups together theits various components of it. The present tense of the participle causes the action of evangeli- zing to be viewed as still ongoing while the preparations for the return journey were underway. Ropes’ comment (Text, p. 137) that the ‘aorist [εὐαγγελισάμενοι] alone yields a possible sense’ is unjustified, given that the present participle concords with the imperfect ὑπέστρεφον in D05 at the end of the sentence (see below). Finally, the object of the evangeliza- tion is made personal, with the article τούϛ denoting the inhabitants of the city rather than the place as an impersonal location. (μαθητεύσαντεϛ) ἱκανοὺϛ ὑπέστρεψαν B P74 ) rell || πολλοὺϛ -φον D (plures reversi sunt d).— εἰϛ τὴν Λύστραν καὶ εἰϛ Ἰκόνιον καὶ Ἀντιόχειαν B 81 | εἰϛ τὴν Λ. κ. εἰϛ Ἰκ. κ. εἰϛ Ἀντ. P74 ) A C E Ψ 33vid. 2344 | εἰϛ Λ. κ. εἰϛ Ἰκ. κ. εἰϛ Ἀντ. 945. 1175. 1739. 1891 | εἰϛ τὴν Λ. κ. Ἰκ. κ. Ἀντ. H L P 049. 056. 226*. 614 M || εἰϛ Λ. κ. Ἰκ. κ. Ἀντ. D 226c. 323. The variants in the second participial clause and the main verb are coherent with the distinct readings of the first clause according to the particular manuscripts. B03 qualifies the number of new disciples made