angels and lucifer

Originally posted by FabianFnas
So he calls himself something in latin, millennia before the language was spoken. Doesn't that strike you as something invented?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer

For one, he called himself nothing; he was given the name from God.

The Hebrew eill bn-shchr of Isaiah 14:12 is transliterated into English as "howl-you son of dawn," but traditionally (since Jerome) was rendered in the Latin, Lucifer, itself an amalgamation of lux (light) and ferous (to bring or carry). Although the Latin transliteration isn't an accurate rendition of the Hebrew-- dropping the howling reference and keeping only the light-bearer aspect--- it has been representative of the same person of which we now speak.

There is an entire other subject of discussion, Jerome's translation, that would be needed in order to consider the steady pattern of corruptions for various (suspected) reasons.