In Russian, the phrase перекуют мечи свои на орала (perekuyut mechi svoi na orala) or “they shall beat their swords into plowshares” is widely used in many variations as an idiom in every-day life with the meaning ranging from “changing from war to peace” to “radical tranformation.” This is despite the fact that most modern Russians would not know what the meaning of the old-fashioned term орала (orala) or “plowshare” is. The wording of the quote originated in the Russian Synodal Bible (publ. 1876). (Source: Reznikov 2020, p. 90)
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