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Lucifer is a Latin word made up of two words, lux (light; genitive lucis) and ferre (to bear, to bring), meaning light-bearer. Lucifer ap...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lucifer: Encyclopedia Ii - Lucifer - Lucifer In Roman Poetry
Lucifer is a poetic name for the "morning star", a close translation of the Greek eosphoros, the "Dawn-bringer", which appears in the Ody...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lucifer: Encyclopedia Ii - Lucifer - Lucifer And The Hebrew Bible
Lucifer is used by Jerome in the Vulgate (4th century) to translate into Latin Isaiah 14:12-14, where the Hebrew text refers to heilel be...   » Read the article

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Lucifer is a key protagonist in John Milton's Protestant epic, Paradise Lost. Milton presents Lucifer almost sympathetically, an ambitiou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lucifer: Encyclopedia Ii - Lucifer - Lucifer In The Christian Tradition
Jerome, with the Septuagint close at hand and a general familiarity with the pagan poetic traditions, translated Helel as Lucifer. Much o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lucifer: Encyclopedia Ii - Lucifer - Lucifer In Astronomy
Because the planet Venus (Lucifer) is an inferior planet, meaning that its orbit lies between the orbit of the Earth and the Sun, it can ...   » Read the article