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This article is about Lucifer in reference to Christian theology; for other meanings, see: Lucifer (disambiguation).
Lucifer is a Latin word derived from two words, lux (light) and fero (to bear–to bring), meaning light-bearer, light-bringer. In Roman mythology, Lucifer was a deity equivalent to the Greek Heosphorus, and the planet Venus was known by the name Lucifer in Roman astrology before being given its current name. In Christianity, Lucifer has become synonymous with Satan or the Devil, despite the original Judaic mythology considering Lucifer and Satan to be two quite separate entities.
Lucifer is also a deity in the Voodoo religions.
In the Bible, the word lucifer describes the planet Venus, the "light of the morning" (Job 11:17); the "signs of the zodiac" (Job 38:32) and "the aurora" (Psalm 109:3). It is applied to the "King of Babylon" (Isaiah 14:12), to "Simon son of Onias" (Ecclesisasticus 50:6); to the "glory of heaven" (Apocalypse 2:23) and to "Jesus Christ" (II Peter 1:19; Apocalypse 22:16).
St. Jerome's Vulgate translation of Isaiah 1:14 makes Lucifer the name of the principal fallen angel who must lament the loss of his original glory as the morning star. This image at last defines the character of Lucifer; where the Church Fathers had maintained that lucifer was not the proper name of the Devil, and that it referred rather to the state from which he had fallen; St. Jerome transformed it into Satan's proper name.
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