
Again, we are taught as follows by the prophet Isaiah regarding another opposing power. The prophet says, How is Lucifer, who used to arise in the morning, fallen from heaven! He who assailed all nations is broken and beaten to the ground. You indeed said in your heart, I shall ascend into heaven; above the stars of heaven shall I place my throne; I shall sit upon a lofty mountain, above the lofty mountains which are towards the north; I shall ascend above the clouds; I shall be like the Most High. Now shall you be brought down to the lower world, and to the foundations of the earth. They who see you shall be amazed at you, and shall say, This is the man who harassed the whole earth, who moved kings, who made the whole world a desert, who destroyed cities, and did not unloose those who were in chains. All the kings of the nations have slept in honour, every one in his own house; but you shall be cast forth on the mountains, accursed with the many dead who have been pierced through with swords, and have descended to the lower world. As a garment cloned with blood, and stained, will not be clean; neither shall you be clean, because you have destroyed my land and slain my people: you shall not remain for ever, most wicked seed. Prepare your sons for death on account of the sins of your father, lest they rise again and inherit the earth, and fill the earth with wars. And I shall rise against them, says the Lord of hosts, and I shall cause their name to perish, and their remains, and their seed." (Book I, Chapter 5, Part 5)
Origen's long quote is from Isaiah 14. In context, the prophet is explaining how divine wrath will deal justice to the king of Babylon
The name Lucifer is Latin for the planet Venus, especially as the morning star... which rises in the east, the direction of Babylon from Jerusalem. Lucifer is a compound of lux meaning light and ferre meaning "to bear" or "to bring."
This use of Lucifer is consistent with a range of surviving Latin poetry. For example, from Virgil's Georgics:
Luciferi primo cum sidere frigida rura
carpamus, dum mane novum, dum gramina canent
Let us hasten, when first the Morning Star appears,
To the cool pastures, while the day is new, while the grass is dewy.
The Latin term was inserted into the Hebrew of Isaiah by Latin speaking translators including Origen. But Isaiah - almost certainly - was referring not to a creature named Lucifer, but to the star that rises in the East, a poetic reference to the Babylonian adversary of Judea.
The image is of Satan in his Original Glory by William Blake
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