Flaming sword

Image:Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix 038.jpg A flaming sword is a sword glowing with flame due to some supernatural power. Flaming swords have existed in legend and myth for thousands of years.

According to the Bible, a Cherub with a rotating flaming sword was placed by God at the gates of Paradise after Adam and Eve were banished from it (Genesis 3:24). Eastern Orthodox tradition says that from the time Jesus was born, the flaming sword was removed from the Garden of Eden, making it possible for humanity to re-enter Paradise^{[citation needed]}.

Examples of swords glowing with flame in fiction include some magic swords used in the game Dungeons and Dragons. A priest wielding a flaming sword appears in A Song of Ice and Fire.

The founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith, claimed that an angel threatened him with death by a flaming sword if he did not adopt the practice of polygamy^{[citation needed]}.

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