Does exist the word lucifer as sinonimus of devil?
Well it does NOW, in popular use. But this use is actually based on an interpretation of a verse of Scripture that is almost certainly MISTAKEN. Here’s the deal: In Isaiah 13 we find a prophecy spoken aginst the King of Babylon. It mocks his pretensions of greatness by addressing him with the sort of bragging titles ancient kings used for themselves (they regarded themselves as heavenly beings, “sons of the gods”), then describing his descent into the GRAVE, where other great kings meet him and marvel that even he has fallen. One of the titles used of him may be rendered “Morning Star”, an expression that the Latin version translated as “Lucifer” — a word meaning “light-bearer”. There were some who thought the language of this passage just too great to be used of any human king. So they argued that the passage was REALLY describing the fall of Satan.
Well it does NOW, in popular use. But this use is actually based on an interpretation of a verse of Scripture that is almost certainly MISTAKEN. Here’s the deal: In Isaiah 13 we find a prophecy spoken aginst the King of Babylon. It mocks his pretensions of greatness by addressing him with the sort of bragging titles ancient kings used for themselves (they regarded themselves as heavenly beings, “sons of the gods”), then describing his descent into the GRAVE, where other great kings meet him and marvel that even he has fallen. One of the titles used of him may be rendered “Morning Star”, an expression that the Latin version translated as “Lucifer” — a word meaning “light-bearer”. There were some who thought the language of this passage just too great to be used of any human king. So they argued that the passage was REALLY describing the fall of Satan. They point out that titles connected him to the stars would be apt, since the Bible at times refers to heavenly/angelic beings as “stars
