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Where in the bible does it say that it is better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    It's "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven", and it's in Milton's "Paradise Lost", not the Bible.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    That's from Milton's "Paradise Lost", not the Bible. Acutally the correct quote is "Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav'n". Book 1, line 263.

    For that matter, the whole story of Satan being a fallen angel comes from that book, and not the Bible either.

    (And no, the Isiah quote about "Lucifer" has nothing to do Satan. It was only in the KJV Bible that "lucifer" became "Lucifer". The word "lucifer" itself came when St. Jerome first translated the Hebrew scriptures to Latin, and used that word for heyel, "bringer of light". The passage compares a king's lost reign to the descent of Venus in the night sky.)

  • 1 decade ago

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  • 1 decade ago

    I think that's in Milton's "Paradise Lost" rather than the Bible.

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  • 1 decade ago

    That's from one of those famous Hell poems. Inferno or Paradise Lost or something. It's out of context, too.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    it's from Dante, or it's from Milton's Paradise Lost

    and its better to serve in heaven

  • Seni
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    No where, it's a quote from Milton's story 'Paradise Lost'

  • glory
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    The Bible does not say that. You are deceived. That is a lie of the devil.

  • 1 decade ago

    Achilles said something like this in the "Odyssey", and I think Lucifer did in Dante's "Inferno". It is not in the bible.

  • 1 decade ago

    I think that's a quote from Dante's Inferno, not from the bible.

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