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How you are fallen from heaven, day-star, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!
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"Lucifer" is the King of Babylon
Nearly all commentators (Calvin, Ellicott, Gill) stress that this verse is about the human king of Babylon, not Satan. The name "Lucifer" comes from the Latin for "light-bringer" and translates the Hebrew for "day star" or "shining one" (the planet Venus). The association with Satan, while popular, is a later interpretation that commentators argue is not supported by the immediate context of Isaiah's prophecy against Babylon.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
How art thou fallen from heaven - A new image is presented here. It is that of the bright morning star: a comparison of the once ma…
19th Century
Anglican
How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! —The word for Lucifer is, literally, the shining one
Baptist
God hates pride with a perfect hatred. He drives his sword through the very heart of it, and cuts it in pieces. None can be great and mighty, and b…
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16th Century
Protestant
How you are fallen from heaven! Isaiah proceeds with the discourse he had previously begun, speaking as the dead, and concludes that the t…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
How are you fallen from heaven This is not to be understood of the fall of Satan, and the apostate angels, from thei…
The whole plan of Divine Providence is arranged with a view to the good of the people of God. A settlement in the land of promise is of God's mercy…
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13th Century
Catholic
409. Her time is near at hand. In this part, he promises liberation to the Jews through the destruction of Babylon, which he threatened abov…
