Acts 5:3 o` Pe,troj( ~Anani,a

Instead of o` Pe,troj( ~Anani,a codex Bezae reads Pe,troj pro.j ~Anani,an. Did pro,j come from partial dittography of Pe,troj, or is the commonly received reading the result of accidental omission of the preposition and of the final n (perhaps written as a horizontal line over the final a) of ~Anani,an?

In view of the tendency of the Western text to expand readings, it is probable that the scribe of D filled out the expression either accidentally or deliberately (compare the insertion by E 321 syrp, h with* copsa, bo eth al of pro.j auvto,n before or after Pe,troj).

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