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A fallen angel, in Christian theology, is an angel who has been exiled or

banished from Heaven. Often such banishment is a punishment for
disobeying or rebelling against God (see War in Heaven).

The best-known fallen angel is Lucifer, a name frequently attributed to

Satan in Christian belief. This usage stems from a particular interpretation of
Isaiah 14:3-20 (http://bibref.hebtools.com/?book=%20Isaiah&
verse=14:3-20&src=ESV) that speaks of someone who is given the name of
"Day Star" or "Morning Star" (in Latin, Lucifer) as fallen from heaven. The
word Lucifer, however, does not refer to Satan anywhere in the Bible. Some
see the passage as using this name to describe the king of Babylon, who had
exalted himself as being deity himself, after which God would cast him
down. The same terminology is used in Ezekiel to describe the king of Tyre.
The Greek etymological synonym of Lucifer, Eωσφόρος (Eosphoros,
"dawn-bearer")[1][2] is used of the morning star in 2 Peter 1:19
(http://bibref.hebtools.com/?book=2%20Peter&verse=1:19&src=ESV) and
elsewhere with no reference to Satan. Statue of the Fallen Angel,
Retiro Park (Madrid, Spain).
Still, Satan is called Lucifer in many later writings, notably Milton's
Paradise Lost (7.131-134, among others), because, according to Milton, Satan was "brighter once amidst the
host of Angels, than that star the stars among."[3]

1 Prospects for salvation

2 Origin of the term
3 References
4 Source
5 Bibliography
6 External links

According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, angels were all created as good beings but some decided to
become evil.[4] Angels do not need faith as they already have the knowledge of celestial things, which means
their action constitutes unforgivable sin.[5] Matthew 12:32 (http://bibref.hebtools.com/?book=%20Matthew&
verse=12:32&src=!) clarifies unforgivable sin as meaning that the sinner is not forgiven in "this age or the age to
come." However, some Christians do not interpret this to mean that those who have committed this sin may be
redeemed after the passage of two ages,[6] A tradition, still believed by some, stretches back as far as Gregory
of Nyssa and Origen and teaches that the Devil and fallen angels will eventually be saved.[7][8]

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The origin of the term lies in the Hebrew word for "giant". The Hebrew word translated as "giants" here is
nephilim, a plural, which itself derives from the root word Naphal (http://bible.crosswalk.com/Lexicons/Hebrew
/heb.cgi?number=05307) , which means to fall. The apocryphal Book of Enoch explains that a group of
rebellious angels "left their first estate" (heaven, or the sky) and came down (fell) to Earth to marry human
women and have children with them. Jude makes mention of these angels in the New Testament:

Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he
hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

Due to the disastrous results of this forbidden intermingling, many have come to view the word "fallen" as
denoting a fall from grace[citation needed], though it seems that the original meaning was simply to descend from
the heavens.

1. ^ ScriptureText.com (http://scripturetext.com/2_peter/1-19.htm)
2. ^ Etymonline.com (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=phosphorous)
3. ^ Online-Literature.com (http://www.online-literature.com/view.php/paradiselost/7?term=lucifer)
4. ^ Vatican.va (http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p1s2c1p7.htm#II) , The Catechism of the Catholic
Church, Number 391
5. ^ Vatican.ca (http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p1s2c1p7.htm#II) , The Catechism of the Catholic
Church, Number 393
6. ^ NewOxfordReview.org (http://www.newoxfordreview.org/article.jsp?did=0299-watt) . Is Hell Closed
Up & Boarded Over?, David Watt, New Oxford Review, February 1999
7. ^ Allen, Thomas (1891). Universalism Asserted (http://www.tlchrist.info/tallin.htm) .
http://www.tlchrist.info/tallin.htm.
8. ^ Russell, Jeffrey (1981). Satan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0801494133.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed
(1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.

"Angels", Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913.

"Catholic Encyclopedia" (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01476d.htm) . New Advent.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01476d.htm.

Ashley, Leonard. The Complete Book of Devils and Demons Barricade Books. ISBN 1-56980-077-4
Bamberger, Bernard Jacob, (March 15, 2006). Fallen Angels: Soldiers of Satan's Realm, 300pp. ISBN
0-8276-0797-0
Davidson, Gustav, 1994. A Dictionary of Angels: Including the Fallen Angels. Free Press. ISBN 0-02-907052-X

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