Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 14:12

12 How art thou fallen from heaven , O Lucifer , son of the morning ? how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations?

From the heighth of thy Glory and Royal Majesty. as Kings are sometimes called gods in Scripture, so their Palaces and Thrones may be fitly called their heavens.

Which properly is a bright and eminent Star, which ushers in the Sun and the Morning; but is here metaphorically taken for the high and mighty King of Babylon. And it is a very usual thing, both in Prophetical and in Profane Writers, to describe the Princes and Potentates of the World under the Title of the Sun or Stars of Heaven. Some understand this Place of the Devil; to whom indeed it may be mystically applied: But as he is never called by this Name in Scripture, so it cannot be literally meant of him, but of the King of Babylon, as is undeniably evident from the whole Centext, which certainly speaks of one and the same Person, and describes him as plainly as Words can do it.

The Title of son is given in Scripture not onely to a Person or Thing begotten or produced by another, but also in general to any thing which is any way related to another; in which sence we read of a son of stripes, Deut. 25. 2. the son of a night, Ionah 4. 10. a son of perdition, Ioh. 17. 12. and, which is more agreeable to the present Case, the sons of Arcturus, Iob 38. 32.

Marginal references: Or, O daystar.