Translation choice · documented · Feminine
What the source reads — Nympha — a woman — 'and the church in her house' (Greek autēs, feminine)
What this version reads — 'Nymphas… and the church in his house' — the KJV (with the manuscripts that read autou) turns the woman into a man
A second Junia. Paul greets Nympha, who hosts a church in her home — the Greek pronoun is feminine, autēs, 'her'. Scribes who couldn't picture a woman leading a house-church changed the pronoun to 'his' and the name to the masculine 'Nymphas'. Modern critical texts restore her. Another woman quietly turned into a man.
Translation choice · documented · Feminine
What the source reads — Nympha's church, in her house (Greek autēs, feminine)
What this version reads — 'la Chiesa, che è nella casa di lui' — Martini reads it as his house
The Italian echo of the KJV's 'Nymphas… his house'. Following the Latin, Martini makes the pronoun masculine — 'di lui', his — so the woman who hosted the church loses her house to a man. Diodati and the Riveduta leave it ambiguous ('casa sua'); Martini resolves the ambiguity against her.
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