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Our chapter includes Isaiah\u2019s prophecy concerning the fall of the King of Babylon in cosmic terms: \u201cHow are you fallen from heaven, O Shining One, son of Dawn [Heylel Ben-Shahar<\/em>]! How are you felled to earth, who casts lots over nations!\u201d (Isaiah 14:12). In earlier English translations of the Hebrew Bible, following the Latin Vulgate, this epithet, Heylel Ben-Shahar, was translated as \u201cLucifer\u201d (the \u201clight-bringer\u201d, the \u201cMorning-Star\u201d, also the planet Venus), another name for Satan.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Rabbinic Sages (Tanhuma Be-Shalah 13) found in our verse a key reference to how God deals with the Nations of the World that have oppressed Israel: The Holy One, Blessed be He, does not destroy a terrestrial Nation, until He first brings down its extraterrestrial guardian angel [Sar<\/em>], as it is written: \u201cHow are you fallen from heaven, O Shining One, son of Dawn [Heylel Ben-Shahar<\/em>]!\u201d immediately after which is written: \u201cHow are you felled to earth, who casts lots over nations!\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Significantly, the major medieval Jewish bible commentator, Rashi (France, died 1105) adopts the Latin Vulgate understanding of \u201cHeylel Ben-Shahar<\/em>\u201d as the planet Venus that casts light like the Morning Star. In this dirge on the guardian angel [Sar<\/em>] of Babylon, it is said that he will fall from Heaven. \u201cYou are felled to earth\u201d, Rashi understands as referring to Nebuchadnezzar, who \u201ccasts lots over the fate of nations [Holesh \u2018al Goyim<\/em>]\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This pregnant phrase Rashi interprets to suggest that this evil king would determine by lot which ruler of what nation would serve him on each day. This interpretation, Rashi relates, is derived from the tradition recorded in Talmud Bavli Shabbat 149b that Nebuchadnezzar would cast lots each day to decide which ruler would serve him sexually!<\/span><\/p>\n

In Dante\u2019s Inferno, Canto 34, Lucifer (i.e. Satan), based on Isaiah Chapter14, is trapped in ice in the Ninth Circle of Hell, as far as possible from God in Paradise.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lucifer reappears in John Milton\u2019s epic poem, <\/span>Paradise Lost<\/span><\/i>, as Satan, who has been banished from Heaven. In Hell, he volunteers to corrupt the newly created Earth and God’s most favored creation, Mankind. Famously, in Book I, line 263, he says: \u201cBetter to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even more recently, Lucifer has the title role in the TV series \u201cLucifer\u201d, based on the character in DC Comics, in which Lucifer Morningstar, the Devil, abandons Hell, which he rules, for Los Angeles where he runs his own nightclub called Lux. Involved in a murder investigation, Lucifer becomes a consultant to the Los Angeles Police Department!<\/span><\/p>\n

Image: Gustave Dor\u00e9, Lucifer, King of Hell, illustrating Canto XXXIV of Divine Comedy, Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, c. 1865 \/ wikipedia<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":65550,"id":65550,"title":"is14-DVinfernoLuciferKingOfHelljpg","filename":"is14-DVinfernoLuciferKingOfHelljpg.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is14-DVinfernoLuciferKingOfHelljpg.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/lucifer-the-shining-one-fallen-from-heaven\/is14-dvinfernoluciferkingofhelljpg\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"is14-dvinfernoluciferkingofhelljpg","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":65549,"date":"2019-11-10 14:28:54","modified":"2019-11-10 14:29:08","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":800,"height":629,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is14-DVinfernoLuciferKingOfHelljpg-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is14-DVinfernoLuciferKingOfHelljpg-300x236.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":236,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is14-DVinfernoLuciferKingOfHelljpg-768x604.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":604,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is14-DVinfernoLuciferKingOfHelljpg.jpg","large-width":800,"large-height":629,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is14-DVinfernoLuciferKingOfHelljpg.jpg","1536x1536-width":800,"1536x1536-height":629,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is14-DVinfernoLuciferKingOfHelljpg.jpg","2048x2048-width":800,"2048x2048-height":629,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is14-DVinfernoLuciferKingOfHelljpg.jpg","post_full_size-width":800,"post_full_size-height":629,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is14-DVinfernoLuciferKingOfHelljpg-534x420.jpg","home_baner-width":534,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"Lucifer - 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