GeneZ
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But the point remains that the king of Babylon was “Lucifer”, or “Morning Star”, as Lucifer came from Jerome’s Vulgate and is not found in ANY OT mss.
What you say is not a new argument.
Just the same?
What was found in other mss?
Perhaps this will solve the problem? - The Masoretic Text.
Jerome had nothing to do with that version.
Isaiah 14:12
How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning!
How art thou cut down to the ground, that didst cast lots over the nations!
No Jerome to be found... That rabbis would not have used his work.
Would that translation be suitable to you?
Interesting to note. Lucifer's meaning in Latin so happens to be perfectly *descriptive* of what verse 12 speaks of.
Your argument is frivolous, but you present it as if it were the end of the world.
It does not prove that Isaiah 14:12 is only talking about the king of Tyre.
And, your argument is a diversion away from discovering what verse 12 is talking about.
That being?
Why was the one tagged "Lucifer" by Jerome, a son of the morning to begin with?
Ever wonder what that speaks of?
There were angels specifically called "morning stars."
Not all angels qualified.
Job 38:7 reveals the two 'races' of angels created by God.
“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding.
Who determined its measurements?
Surely you know!
Or who stretched the line upon it?
To what were its foundations fastened?
Or who laid its cornerstone,
When the morning stars sang together,
And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Job 38:4-7
Those morning star angels had a special function in the prehistoric world.
Other angels were not morning stars.
According to Isaiah 14:12 the one we now call 'Satan" used to herald in the morning light for that prehistoric world.
An ancient pre-historic world that was destroyed before God created our current world.
So much to know once we stop being hung up in trying to make an argument over an appropriate descriptive name
some scholar decided to use.
grace and peace ...........................