veeklin:
Came across these while doing my Bible Study Research:
The word "Lucifer" in Isaiah 14:12 presents a minor problem to
mainstream Christianity.
"Lucifer makes his appearance in Isaiah 14:12 and nowhere else: "How
art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou
cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!"
The first problem is that Lucifer is a Latin name. So how did it find its
way into a Hebrew manuscript, written before there was a Roman
language? To find the answer, I consulted a scholar at the library of the
Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. What Hebrew name, I asked, was
Satan given in this chapter of Isaiah, which describes the angel who fell
to become the ruler of hell? Please, I asked, explain this to me in a
manner that I can understand and then explain to anyone.
The answer was a surprise. I had to sit back into a chair and take a
moment before continuing. In the original Hebrew text, the fourteenth
chapter of Isaiah is not about a fallen angel, but about a fallen Babylonian
king, who during his lifetime had persecuted the children of Israel. It
contains no mention of Satan, either by name or reference. The Hebrew
scholar could only speculate that some early Christian scribes, writing in
the Latin tongue used by the Church, had decided for themselves that
they wanted the story to be about a fallen angel, a creature not even
mentioned in the original Hebrew text, and to whom they gave the name
"Lucifer."
Why Lucifer 'you may ask'?
In Roman astronomy , Lucifer was the name given to the
morning star (the star we now know by another Roman name, Venus).
The morning star appears in the heavens just before dawn, heralding the
rising sun. The name derives from the Latin term lucem ferre, bringer, or
bearer, of light." In the Hebrew text the expression used to describe the
Babylonian king before his death is Helal, son of Shahar, which can best
be translated as "Day star, son of the Dawn." The name evokes the
golden glitter of a proud king's dress and court (much as his personal
splendor earned for King Louis XIV of France the appellation, "The Sun
King" .
The scholars authorized by ... King James (as LUCIFER first appeared in king James) to translate the Bible into
current English did not use the original Hebrew texts, but used versions
translated largely by St. Jerome in the fourth century. Jerome had
mistranslated the Hebraic metaphor, "Day star, son of the Dawn," as
"Lucifer," and over the centuries a metamorphosis took place. Lucifer the
morning star became a disobedient angel, cast out of heaven to rule
eternally in hell. Theologians, writers, and poets interwove the myth with
the doctrine of the Fall, and in Christian tradition Lucifer is now the same
as Satan, the Devil, and --- ironically --- the Prince of Darkness.
So "Lucifer" is nothing more than an ancient Latin name for the morning
star, the bringer of light. That can be confusing for Christians who identify
Christ himself as the morning star, a term used as a central theme in
many Christian sermons. Jesus refers to himself as the morning star in
Revelation 22:16: "I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these
things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the
bright and morning star."
(http://www.lds-mormon.com/lucifer.shtml).
Translation of הֵילֵל as "Lucifer", as in the King James Version, has been
abandoned in modern English translations of Isaiah 14:12. Present-day
translations have "morning star" ( New International Version , New
Century Version , New American Standard Bible , Good News Translation ,
Holman Christian Standard Bible , Contemporary English Version ,
Common English Bible , Complete Jewish Bible ), "daystar" ( New
Jerusalem Bible, English Standard Version , The Message, "Day Star" New
Revised Standard Version ), "shining one" ( New Life Version , New World
Translation , JPS Tanakh ) or "shining star" ( New Living Translation ).
Indications that in Christian tradition the Latin word lucifer, unlike the
English word, did not necessarily call a fallen angel to mind exist. Two bishops bore that name: Saint Lucifer of Cagliari, and Lucifer of Siena .
In Latin, the word is applied to John the Baptist and is used as a title of
Jesus himself in several early Christian hymns. The morning hymn Lucis
largitor splendide of Hilary contains the line: " Tu verus mundi
lucifer" (you are the true light bringer of the world). Some
interpreted the mention of the morning star ( lucifer) in Ambrose's hymn
Aeterne rerum conditor as referring allegorically to Jesus and the
mention of the cock, the herald of the day ( praeco ) in the same hymn
as referring to John the Baptist. Likewise, in the medieval hymn
Christe qui lux es et dies , some manuscripts have the line "Lucifer
lucem proferens". (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer)
So Lucifer is just a Latin name for " morning star", "Daystar", " shining star" etc, and not Satan's name in heaven. The context with which it is used as found in Isaiah 14: 1-32 referred to a fallen Babylonian king. Moreover Satan cannot claim that name "morning star", as Jesus rightfully is the " bright and morning star " according to Revelation 22: 16.
Therefore Satan's name while in heaven is not contained in the Bible.
I thought you said you were doing Bible studies? Or you copied another person's post? While in Heaven, he was Lucifer. When he fell he became Satan. Read that your Bible well. |
