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Fun fact, same deal with the title "Lucifer" which is the bright morning star, symbolizing divinity. It's another transliteration, this time from Latin, that was erroneously applied as the proper name for Satan. In the book of revelation, Jesus refers back to Satan proclaiming himself as lucifer in the old testament and then corrects him by stating that it's Jesus who is the true Lucifer. Not exactly as impactful as the transliteration of "baptismo", but still another regrettable entry of pop Christianity being real dumb.
I looked into this and I think you might be mistaken. I read that the original text uses different terms that both translate to morning star. One as a description, one as a metaphor
I'm not sure where you think I'm mistaken.
I could not locate Jesus calling himself Lucifer - only "the morning star" which comes from a different Latin word than Lucifer's Latin word despite translating to the same thing.
It's the same thing. Lucifer isn't a name or proper title or anything, just a kinda symbolic claim. It's a reference to Venus, having a different symbolic meaning depending on when/who you ask. I guess it's important to contextualize the book of Revelation as apocalyptic literature, being much less about predictive prophecy and more about revelatory prophecy. Revelation relies very very heavily on the Old Testament(probably the LXX) as a source. So in Jesus referring to himself as the "true Lucifer", it can be seen as a correction of the claims made in Isaiah by the devil, calling himself the bright morning star.
As for the whole Latin thing, well. So Isaiah was originally written in ancient Hebrew and the text the author of Revelation would have probably used for the Old Testament was Greek(LXX). Revelation would have also been in Greek. None of the original texts would have used Lucifer. However, the texts in question do use the symbology of Venus and could technically use Lucifer if they want to translate to Latin. I think a good portion of the confusion comes from the KJV's translation of Isaiah 14:12 just straight up saying Lucifer. For that translation, I agree with the sentiment, but strongly disagree with the execution since this should be an English translation for one, but more importantly shouldn't impose Latin symbology on ancient Hebrew symbology that will have a different take. Either way, they all refer to the symbology of Venus as the "bright morning star", hence my correction using the vernacular of the misconception.
And, just a little semi-related thing here that I think is interesting in considering the evolution of religion over time: the original passage in Isaiah 14 was really only talking about the Babylonian king, most likely Nebuchadnezzar II. It's kind of a Christian 'retcon' to include the devil as the subject in the passage. Many of the early Patristic fathers of Christianity were pretty adamant about opposing the view that it's about the Babylonian king and the devil, but eventually the Christian remytholization became the majority view, even up to this day.