the D-Text is shorter. In most cases this is due to intentional abbreviation25 of passages deemed unduly wordy. It is possible that the same reader/editor who expanded portions of the text abbreviated others; it is no less possible that these represent the work of different persons. At the very least it is apparent that the text of Acts could still be treated with considerable freedom in Egypt in the fifth and later centuries and that Latin texts of the D-type were sufficiently common to be used