The Variant Readings of the Western Text of the Acts of the Apostles 187 given by Simeon the Just and goes on to cite what Simeon said about the Prophets, that they will (οὕτως συμφωνήνουσιν, future) concord with its teaching. 15:16 μετὰ ταῦτα B P74 ) Ds.m. rell || μ. δὲ ταῦ. D*, post haec autem d 1874.— ἀναστρέψω B P74 ) rell || ἐπι- D, convertar d vgms. δέ of D05 expresses the notion that the Prophets build on the teachings of the Torah, not just repeat them. The D05 verb follows Jer. 12:15 LXX. (τὰ) κατεστραμμένα (-εμμένα B) ) Ψ 33. 326. 1837 pc; (Eus) | ἀνεσκαμ- E 547 | κατεσκαμ- D P74 A C L P 049. 056. 1739 M. The same vl is found in Amos 9.11 LXX: κατεστραμμένα Ac Q*, κατ- εσκαμ- B Qa. Both are perfect participles. The former verb, καταστρέφω, has the sense of destroy a city (Bailly, 1) while the latter, κατασκάπτω, has the same meaning, though with greater intensity (Bailly, 2 ‘saper, miner, d’où détruire de fond en comble’). 15:17 (τὸν) κύριον B P74 ) rell || θεόν D, deum d b c vgθ; Rebapt. Most MSS of Amos 9:12 LXX continue from ἀνθρώπων to καὶ πάντα directly; but B03 follows A02, where τὸν κύριον is a reference to YHWH, which D05 never uses from the point of view of Gentiles (see Read- Heimerdinger, The Bezan Text, p. 286). ποιῶν (ταῦτα) B P74 )* Ψ pc, faciens d || ὁ ποιῶν )2 A C DH E H L P 049. 056. 33. 1739 M syh; Eus || ποιήσει D*. B03 continues the citation from Amos 9:12. The D05 reading (described as a ‘leçon impossible’ by Delebecque [Les deux Actes, p. 96]), may be understood as an emphatic declaration by James, prefacing his final citation from the Prophets in the D05 text. It is unlikely to have arisen through homoioteleuton, whereby the relative pronoun was omitted because it resembled the end of the previous word (ΚΥΡΙΟCΟC), since the divine title is abbreviated in D05 to ΚC. 15:17/18 ταῦτα γνωστὰ ἀπ’ αἰῶνος B ) C Ψ 33. 81. 323. 630. 1175. 1505. 2344 al co; Didasc Eus | τ. πάντα γν. ἀπ’ αἰῶνος 36. 307. 453. 610. 1678. 1739. 1891 | τ. πάντα ἅ ἐστιν γνωστὰ αὐτῷ ἀπ’ αἰῶνος 945 pc (aeth) || ταῦτα· γνωστὸν ἀπ’ αἰῶνός ἐστιν (– P74 A) τῷ κυρίῳ τὸ ἔργον αὐτοῦ D P74 A lat (syhmg; Irlat) | ταῦτα (+ πάντα H 056 M syh, sE L P 049): γνωστὰ ἀπ’ αἰῶνός ἐστι τῷ θεῷ πάντα τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ E H L P 049. 056. 0142. 614 M (gig) sy(p).h; CAp Chr. Where B03 concludes the exposition of James’ speech with a participial phrase (see above) summarizing the plan of God (ταῦτα) as ‘known from