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:
“Him the Almighty Power
Hurld headlong flaming from th’ Ethereal Skie
With hideous ruine and combustion down
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire,
Who durst defie th’ Omnipotent to Arms.
Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night
To mortal men, he with his horrid crew
Lay vanquisht, rowling in the fiery Gulfe”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church.... We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.”
—Stephen Bayley (b. 1951)