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How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!
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Verse 12. O Lucifer. O day-star. All this, according to the letter, is spoken of the king of Babylon. It may also be applied, in a spiritual sense, to Lucifer, the prince of devils, who was created a bright angel, but fell by pride and rebellion against God. Challoner. Lu. 10:18. Calmet.—He fell by pride, as Nabuchodonosor did. Worthington.—Homer (Iliad xix.) represents the demon of discord hurled down by Jupiter to the miserable region of mortals.
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