“Behold the sword of the Lord will descend suddenly and quickly upon the earth.”

— Girolamo Savonarola

Motto he beheld in a vision (December 1492), as quoted in History of the Christian Church, Vol. V (1910) by Philip Schaff, and David Schley Schaff p. 688
Behold the sword of the Lord, swift and sure, over the earth.
As quoted in Books: The Sword of God" in TIME (17 August 1959)

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Italian Dominican friar and preacher 1452–1498

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