Angels with a flaming sword were set as sentries at the gates of Paradise to bar our return.

天命们手执直冒火焰的利剑，被派去守卫天堂的大门，不许我们重返乐园。

youdao

Then, suddenly, the Baal Shem Tov sees before him 'a flaming sword, turning this way and that,' and decides to turn back.

可是，突然，巴尔·谢姆·托夫看到他身前有“一把燃着火焰的宝剑，转动挥舞着”，于是决定掉头回去。

youdao

And he cast out Adam; and placed before the paradise of pleasure Cherubims, and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

天主将亚当逐出了以后，就在伊甸乐园的东面，派了“革鲁宾”和刀光四射的火剑，防守到生命树去的路。

youdao

It was sweeping round swiftly and steadily, this flaming death, this invisible, inevitable sword of heat.

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