The name Lucifer comes from a prophet’s taunt against a proud king. The king is the ruler of Babylon (Isaiah 14:4), and the Hebrew word in Isaiah 14:12, helel, means “shining one” or “morning star,” and Ezekiel 28 laments the king of Tyre in similar terms. The New Testament speaks of Satan and the devil. Reading Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 as his fall is an interpretation: Origen read Isaiah 14 that way and Tertullian read Ezekiel 28 that way,…
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