Fred Briones Isaiah
Fred Briones Isaiah
Fred Briones Isaiah
Isaiah is eager both to serve the Lord and to deliver essential truth to
his people in Judah. Isaiah 6:8–13 finds Isaiah newly cleansed with his sin
atoned for. In response to the Lord's question about who to send, Isaiah
eagerly volunteers to take God's message to his people in Judah.
12) How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the
morning!—The word for Lucifer is, literally, the shining one, the
planet Venus, the morning star, the son of the dawn, as the symbol of
the Babylonian power, which was so closely identified with astrolatry.
“Lucifer” etymologically gives the same meaning, and is used by Latin
poets (Tibull. i., 10, 62) for Venus, as an equivalent for
the phôsphoros of the Greeks. The use of the word, however, in
mediæval Latin as a name of Satan, whose fall was supposed to be
shadowed forth in this and the following verse, makes its selection
here singularly unfortunate. Few English readers realise the fact that it
is the king of Babylon, and not the devil, who is addressed as Lucifer.
While this has been the history of the Latin word, its Greek and
English equivalents have risen to a higher place, and the “morning
star” has become a name of the Christ (Revelation 22:16).