The term flaming sword may refer to any of the following:
- Flaming sword (mythology) - A type of sword described throughout history in legends and myths, ablaze by magical or supernatural means, often seen as being symbolic
- Flaming sword (effect) - A sword that has been coated with some type of combustible fuel, with the fuel being set on fire; this is most widely done for entertainment purposes in circuses, magic performances and other forms of display as a side act of sword swallowers, fire eating, etc.
- "Flaming Sword" - a song by British New Wave group Care
- "Flaming Sword in the Desert" - The militant advance and conquest of Islam across the Middle East and North Africa into Catholic Spain. During the period 622 to 750, Islam supplanted Christianity as the dominant spiritual, military, and political force from Constantinople to Jerusalem to Cordoba.
Famous quotes containing the words flaming and/or sword:
“Between extremities
Man runs his course;
A brand, or flaming breath,
Comes to destroy
All those antinomies
Of day and night....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Oh that my Pow’r to Saving were confin’d:
Why am I forc’d, like Heav’n, against my mind,
To make Examples of another Kind?
Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?
Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!
How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan,
Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)