![]() ![]() Although today Biblical scholars agree that Isaiah was referring to the Babylonian king, misinterpretations of the Biblical text, starting with St. The Greek translation of heylel (morning star) is phosphoros meaning lightbearer (also heosphoros meaning dawn-bearer), while the equivalent Latin translation is lucifer from lucis, light and ferre, to bear – literally lightbearer. In astronomy, Venus is known as the Lightbearer - the Morning Star - because it rises on the early morning horizon heralding the sunrise. ![]() In this passage Isaiah is alluding to the pride of the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II - prophesying his eventual fall by referencing mythological accounts of the planet Venus. “Lightbearer” has its first religious root in the Hebrew phrase “Heylel ben Shachar” in passage 14:12 of the Book of Isaiah in the Old Testament, meaning “son of the morning star”. ![]()
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