Lucifer = Satan?: Morning Star

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Isaiah 14:

4 you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has come to an end! How his fury has ended!
12 How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!

O Morning Star,
הֵילֵ֣ל (hê·lêl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1966: The morning-star

The LXX word for H1966 is εωσφόρος.

The morning star refers to the king of Babylon. Some interpret it as a symbol for Satan, as the king of Babylon is a type of Satan.

Latin: Vulgata Clementina:

Quomodo cecidisti de cælo, Lucifer, qui mane oriebaris ? corruisti in terram, qui vulnerabas gentes?

King James Bible:

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!

Merriam-Webster:

Lucifer has been in the English language for a very long time, and has not solely carried the meaning of "Satan." The word comes from a Latin root—lucifer, in Latin, means "light-bearing"—and has also been used by poets to refer to Venus, the morning star.

Now, in the NT, ESV 2 Peter 1:

19 And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts,

morning star
φωσφόρος (phōsphoros)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 5459: (lit: light-bearing), radiant, the morning-star. From phos and phero; light-bearing, i.e., the morning-star.

G5459 appears exactly once in the Bible.

Note the resemblance of εωσφόρος and φωσφόρος.

Vulgate decided to translate G5459 as

Et habemus firmiorem propheticum sermonem : cui benefacitis attendentes quasi lucernæ lucenti in caliginoso donec dies elucescat, et lucifer oriatur in cordibus vestris :

This time, King James Bible did not follow Vulgate:

We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

Now, the day star (lucifer) symbolizes Jesus.

Did the Vulgate lucifer mean Satan or Jesus?

Neither.

There is yet a third expression for the term moring star. Revelation 22:

16 “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.”

Morning
πρωϊνός (prōinos)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 4407: Belonging to the morning, early. From proi; pertaining to the dawn, i.e. Matutinal.

Star
ἀστὴρ (astēr)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 792: A star. Probably from the base of stronnumi; a star, literally or figuratively.

This Morning Star symbolizes Jesus.

Lucifer = Satan?

I would not interpret Lucifer that way. The word was neither Hebrew nor Greek; it was Latin. I prefer to stick to the wording of Scripture. "Lucifer" is not Scriptural. The Hebrew word for Satan (H7854) does not even appear anywhere in the book of Isaiah.

Also, see the concept of satan.

 

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How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!

Morning star/Lucifer are both wrong. Jerome admitted to not knowing how to translate this, but his mistake had already been accepted.

I, personally, translated this directly from the Great Isaiah Scroll (image).

The text actually says: “how you have fallen from the sky, howling, son of the dawn.”

 

[tonychanyt]

Morning star/Lucifer are both wrong. Jerome admitted to not knowing how to translate this, but his mistake had already been accepted.

I, personally, translated this directly from the Great Isaiah Scroll (image).

The text actually says: “how you have fallen from the sky, howling, son of the dawn.”

Funny

BTW, how did you manage to insert your comment into my post: Dark earth?