Lucifer is a Latin word made up of two words, lux (light; genitive lucis) and ferre (to bear, to bring), meaning light-bearer. Lucifer appears in Greek mythology as heosphoros, the "Dawn-bringer"; it is used by poets to represent the Morning Star at moments when "Venus" would introduce distracting imagery of the goddess. "Lucifer" does not appear in most modern translations of the Christian Bible. The name is considered to have been a mistranslation that gave rise to an erroneous and non-Biblical 5th century tradition in order to explain it. "Lucifer" is Jerome's direct translation in his Vulgate (4th century) of the Septuagint's Greek translation, as heosphoros, "morning star" or "Day Star," literally "bringer of the Dawn", of a phrase in Isaiah 14:12, where it is used to refer to the Babylonian king by one of his popular honorific titles. From the viewpoint of the 5th century Christian tradition, Lucifer is seen as having been second in command to God himself; he was the highest archangel in heaven, but he was motivated by pride and greed to rebel against God and was cast out of heaven, followed by a third of the host of heaven. In later Christian tradition and folklore, Lucifer was identified explicitly with Satan. Such beliefs are thought by some to be contrary to Jesus' teachings, and to exalt Satan and Lucifer to positions and powers not supported in the Bible. Modern concepts of Lucifer and Satan come from embelishments in the fictional works of Dante's The Divine Comedy and Milton's Paradise Lost, rather than Biblical sources.
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- When I'm not writing, I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me.
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My Poetry
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I saw her dancing in the rain
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welcome to The Beautiful Downgrade and goodnight22 lines, 1 comment, March 14, 2006. In Other
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My Stories
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He watched the rain run off the bleak sky as he stared through his reflection in the bus window. It was only around 6:30 in the evening but the rain clouds darkened the s
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Street Spirit on August 7, 2006I see you added a poem then deleted it... I hope you know this means you'll have to email it to me, like it or not.
i got blank cds! YES! (actually, their chelsea's... shhh..)
Love you
~Moi~
