Lucifer (Lat., 'light-bringer'), the morning-star; see PLANETS. The church fathers attached this name to Satan in the belief that Isaiah, xiv. 12, which refers to the king of Babylon, contained a reference to the Prince of Darkness: cf. Luke, x. 18.
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