I was having a little discussion with someone who read my last postings and insisted, using Biblical references, that Satan and Lucifer were the same angel, and that Lucifer was thrown out of heaven because of his pride. Well we know how touchy the God of the Old Testament is about anyone else having a smidgeon of authority, or any other deity having any living followers, so the story has a ring of authenticity, mythologically speaking.

However, my well worn and cherished English Bible is the King James Version, and it says on the front page “ Translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised.” And this elegantly phrased statement was not what happened.