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Isaiah 14:12

The New Testament’s use of Isaiah

3 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

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Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.

Allusion1

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Luke 10:17-20 ?

Seeing Satan fall like lightning from heaven echoes the Day Star (LXX heosphoros) fallen from heaven in the Babylon taunt, a text read in Second Temple Judaism as the fall of a heavenly rebel. The immediate reuse of Isaiah 14 from the preceding woes strengthens recurrence and coherence.

High confidence

Echo2

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Rev 8:8–13 ?

'How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star...' — a fallen luminary from the sky. Resonates with the great star Wormwood falling from heaven (v. 10); the figural fallen-star imagery is a recognized backdrop, though the named referent differs.

Medium confidence
Rev 12:7–12

'How you are fallen from heaven, Day Star (Lucifer), son of the morning! ...cast down to the earth' — the heaven-to-earth casting-down of a rebel celestial figure underlies the dragon being 'thrown down to the earth.' Often read with Luke 10:18.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Isaiah 14
Isaiah 14:12-15 2Isaiah 14:15 2Isaiah 14:29 2