ISAIAH 14:12
How art thou fallen from heaven—A new image is presented here. It is that of the bright morning star; and a comparison of the once magnificent monarch with that beautiful star. He is now exhibited as having fallen from his place in the east to the earth. His glory is dimmed; his brightness quenched. Nothing can be more poetic and beautiful than a comparison of a magnificent monarch with the
bright morning star! Nothing more striking in representing his death, than the idea of that star falling to the earth!
Lucifer—Margin, ‘Day-star’ (ììÅéä• heôyleôl, from ììÇä˜ haòlal, “to shine”).
The word in Hebrew occurs as a noun nowhere else. In two other places Ezek. 21:12; Zech. 11:2, it is used as a verb in the imperative mood of Hiphil, and is translated ‘howl’ from the verb ììÇéˆ yaôlal, “to howl” or “cry.” Gesenius and Rosenmüller suppose that it should be so rendered here. So Noyes renders it, ‘Howl, son of the morning!’ But the common translation seems to be preferable.
The Septuagint renders it, FÅùóöüñïò Heoôsphoros, and the Vulgate,
‘Lucifer, the morning star.’ The Chaldee, ‘How art thou fallen from high, who wert splendid among the sons of men.’ There can be no doubt that the object in the eve of the prophet was the bright morning star; and his design was to compare this magnificent oriental monarch with that. The comparison of a monarch with the sun, or the other heavenly bodies, is common in the Scriptures.
Son of the morning—This is a Hebraism, and signifies that that bright star is, as it were, the production, or the offspring of morning; or that it belongs to the morning. The word ‘son’ often thus denotes
possession, or that one thing belongs to another. The same star in one place represents the Son of God himself; Rev. 21:16: ‘I am—the bright and morning star.’
Which didst weaken the nations—By thy oppressions and exactions,
rendering once mighty nations feeble.
REVELATION 22:16
I Jesus—Here the Saviour appears expressly as the speaker—ratifying and confirming all that had been communicated by the instrumentality of the angel.
Have sent mine angel To testify unto you—That is, to be a witness for me in communicating these things to you.
In the churches—Directly and immediately to the seven churches in Asia Minor Rev. 2:3; remotely and ultimately to all churches to the end of time.
I am the root—Not the root in the sense that David sprang from him, as a tree does from a root, but in the sense that he was the “root-shoot” of David, or that he himself sprang from him, as a sprout starts up from a decayed and fallen tree—as of the oak, the willow, the chestnut, etc. See this explained in the notes on Isa. 11:1. The meaning then is, not that he was the ancestor of David, or that David sprang from him, but that he was the offspring of David, according to the promise in the Scripture, that the Messiah should be descended from him. No argument, then, can be derived from this passage in proof of the pre-existence, or the divinity of Christ.
And the offspring—The descendant; the progeny of David; “the seed of David according to the flesh.” It is not unusual to employ two words in close connection to express the same idea with some slight shade of difference.
And the bright and morning star—See the notes on Rev. 2:28. It is not uncommon to compare a prince, a leader, a teacher, with that bright and beautiful star which at some seasons of the year precedes the rising of the sun, and leads on the day. Compare the notes on Isa. 14:12. The reference here is to that star as the harbinger of day; and the meaning of the Saviour is, that he sustains a relation to a dark world similar to this beautiful star. At one time he is indeed compared with the sun itself in giving light to the world; here he is compared with that morning star rather with reference to its beauty than its light. May it not also have been one object in this comparison to lead us, when we look on that star, to think of the Saviour? It is perhaps the most beautiful object in nature; it succeeds the darkness of the night; it brings on the day—and as it mingles with the first rays of the morning, it seems to be so joyous, cheerful, exulting, bright, that nothing can be better adapted to remind us of Him who came to lead on eternal day. Its place—the first thing that arrests the eye in the morning—might serve to remind us that the Saviour should be the first object that should draw the eye and the heart on the return of each day. In each trial—each scene of sorrow—let us think of the bright star of the morning as it rises on the darkness of the night—emblem of the Saviour rising on our sorrow and our gloom.
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don`t be fooled JW`s
by steveykys indont be fooled jw`s you say that jesus is the way to god (yeh).
but you dont believe jesus is god you also obey the ten commandments?
then if this is the case, you are breaking them god say don` have no other gods before me fo i am a jelous god if you are putting jesus as a way to god the dont you think god will be angry?
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steveykys
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don`t be fooled JW`s
by steveykys indont be fooled jw`s you say that jesus is the way to god (yeh).
but you dont believe jesus is god you also obey the ten commandments?
then if this is the case, you are breaking them god say don` have no other gods before me fo i am a jelous god if you are putting jesus as a way to god the dont you think god will be angry?
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steveykys
dont be fooled JW`s You say that Jesus is the way to God (yeh). But you dont believe Jesus is God you also obey the ten commandments? then if this is the case, you are breaking them God say don` have no other Gods before me fo I am a jelous God if you are putting Jesus as a way to God the dont you think God will be angry? You fools Jesus has to be God not no mighty angel. There are no cotradictions in the bible. Believe in Jesus as the Saviour and as God you are being missled by your organization.