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The Hebrew term hêlêl (הֵילֵל, rendered helel or hêlêl ben‑shachar) appears once in Isaiah 14:12 and literally conveys “shining one” or “day star” applied to the king of Babylon; the Greek Septuagint ...
Saint Jerome’s Latin Vulgate translation rendered the Hebrew helel ben shachar (Isaiah 14:12) as “Lucifer,” a common Latin word for the morning star (Venus); that poetic phrase originally addressed a ...
Early Christian interpreters began treating Isaiah 14:12's Hebrew phrase Helel ben Shachar ("shining one, son of the morning") as a portrait of a fallen angel chiefly because Greek and Latin translati...
The First Council of Nicaea did not set the Christian biblical canon; contemporary records of the council make no decision on which books belong in Scripture . The widespread myth that Nicaea or Const...
Johann Eck’s attacks on Martin Luther in 1520–1521 centered on defending , while portraying Luther’s positions as tantamount to Hussite heresy; Eck combined scholastic argument, patristic citations, a...
Translations like the Greek Septuagint and Jerome’s Latin Vulgate helped transform poetic celestial imagery in Hebrew texts into lexical items—Phosphorus/Heosphoros and Lucifer—that readers and theolo...
The Council of Nicaea defined the Nicene Creed and settled issues like Easter’s dating but did not publish or fix a universal biblical canon; surviving Nicaean canons address Arianism and church order...
Early Christian writers began to link the Isaiah passage about the “morning star” (Hebrew helel, Latin lucifer) with the devil already in late antiquity: church fathers such as Origen, Tertullian and ...