also But as the
Latin Vulgate renders the word as "luciferum", there are alternative English translations as
"morning star" (CVB, TRC, also
Luther's 1545 German translation, as
Morgenstern);
"day star" (DRA);
"Venus" (MSG);
"Crown season" (NJB);
"sequence of seasons" (NLT);
"Lucifer, 'that is, dai sterre (day star)" (
Wycliffe's Bible).
WES[
clarification needed] gives "stars in the southern signs". Thanks
But in truth, the question touches on two mysteries, the relation of the infinite to the finite sρirit, and the permission of the existence of evil under the government of Him whom is "the Good." As a part of these it must be viewed —to the latter esρecially it belongs; and this latter, while it is the great mystery of all, is also one in which the facts are proved to us by incontrovertible evidence.—
Smith, s. v.
Deliver us from evil.— (1) that the new rendering " the evil one " is an innovation in language, the word wicked being invariably used by the Authorized Version in speaking of Satan; (2) that it narrows the broad, comprehensive sense of the Greek; (3) that it implies incompleteness in the deliverance already accomplished by our Lord; (4) that it has no counterpart or justification in the New Testament ; (5) that it is opposed to the interpretation adopted by all the Churches of Western Christendom ; and (6) that it absolutely ignores the safeguard supplied by the Doxology, laid by all the best expositors of the Greek Church, from Chrysostom onwards.
Cook. The Revised Version...p. 61-62
The belief of the Hebrews down to the Babylonian exile seems but
dimly to have recognized either Satan or demons, at least as a dogmatic tenet, nor had it many occasions for them, since it treated moral evils as a properly humans act (comp. Gen. 3), and always as subjective and concrete, but regarded misfortunes according to teleological axioms, as
a punishment deserved on account of sin at the hand of a righteous God, who inflicted it especially by the agency of one of his angels (2 Sam. 24,16; comp. 2 kings xix, 35), and was according looked upon as
the proper author of every afflictive disρensation (Amos 3, 64, Apparitions were part of the ρoρular creed : there were beings inimical to mankind inhabiting solitude, but not yet adopted in the association of religious ideas.
Pro 16:4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea,
even the wicked for the day of evil. Ps 1:5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but
the way of the ungodly shall perish.
Isa 29:16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
Rom 9:21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? 22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath
fitted to destruction:
Job 16:11
God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
Job 36:17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee. "It is a sentiment which is undoubtedly true - that if a man holds the sentiments, and manifests the spirit of the wicked, he must expect to be treated as they are." [BARNES]
Job 34:25 Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that
they are destroyed. 26 He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others;
" judgment so that they are destroyed; both in a temporal sense, on every side, with an utter destruction; and in a spiritual sense, with an everlasting one." [GILL]