Fisher, Jonathan, a Congregational minister, was liorn Oct. 7, 1768, at New Braintree, Mass. He graduated at Harvard College. 1792, entered the min- istry Oct. 1793, and was installed pastor at Blue Hill,
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Me., July 13, 1796, where he labored until Oct. 24, 1837, and died Sept. 22, 18-47. He publislied a volume of Miscellaneous Poems; Scripture Animals; and a ser- mon.— Sprague, Annals, ii, 314.
Pisher, Richard Adams, a minister of the Ger- man Reformed Church, was born in Berlcs Co., Pa., Oct. 25, 1805. Having finished his preparatory stud- ies under his own pastor, Kev. F. Herman, Jr., he be- gan the study of theology with Kev. Dr. Herman ; was licensed and ordained in 1826. He took charge of the German Reformed congregation in Sunbury, Pa., to- gether with several affiliated churches, in 1827, and continued in this field of labor till 1854, when failing health compelled him to resign. Recovering some- what, he labored a short time in Lj'ken's Valle}', Dau- pliin Co., Pa., where he died Jan. 27, 1857. Mr. Fish- er had a good mind, was a logical and instructive preacher, a genial and kind friend, and was greatlj' be- loved throughout tlie church in which he labored. He }»reached well in both the German and English lan- guages. (H. H.)
Fisher-Ring or Fisherman's Ring. See An-
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Fish-Gate (C^^ltl ^"IIJ, sha'ar had-dugim' , gate of the fishes ; Sept. */ 7ri;\>; j'/ Ix^viKt), in Neh. >'/ ttcXi] »\;5'iipn, in Zeph. 7rv\r] c'lTroKti'Tovi'Tiov; Y\\\i^. jioria jHsciuni), the name of one of the gates of Jerusalem (2Chron.xxxiii, 14; Neh. iii, 3; xii, 39 ; Zeph. i, 10) ; probably on the east side, just north of the Temple en- closure (Strong's Harm, and Expos, of the Gospels, Ap- pend, i, p. 18), although Bartlett (Citt/ of Great King, p. 153) locates it on the west side of the Temple, sup- posing it to have been near the mediiKval "piscina" (p. 301) ; a ver}' unsuitable position, as it doubtless de- rived its name from the fact that fish (q. v.) from the lake of Tiberias (or perhaps from the Mediterranean) were brought to the city b}' tliat route, or that they were sold there (Gesenius, Thes. p. 1054, who identifies if, with the present gate of St. Stephen). See Jerusa- lem.
Fish-hook (in the plur. ns^l'l ri'!"i'ip, thorns [as often rendered] of fishing ; Sept. at random X(l3)]Tni fjt'TTypoi, Vulg. equally so ollce fervenfes, both taking the term in the sense of jmts, contrarj' to the sj'nony- raous nii", "hooks," of the other hemistich), used figuratively of an instrument of control (Amos iv, 2), after tlie analogy of animals which were tamed by put- ting hooks and rings in their noses (comp. Isa. xxxvii, 29; Ezek. xxxix.4; Jobxl,2G; see Oedmann,*^;/?^?);/. V, 5). Others, as Doderlein (in loc), prefer to retain the simple meaning of thorns, as referring to pastoral customs. See Fishixg.
Fish-pool (nans, herehah', a pool, as often else- where), a pond or reservoir in general ; presumed by our translators at Cant, vii, 4 to be intended for fish (q. v.), such as we know were anciently constructed for tlie purpose of pleasure angling. See Fishing (above).
Fish-spear (D-'W b^b:i, lit. a prong of fishes; Sept. and Vulgate vaguely izXoia uXumov, gurgustium piscitim), a harpoon or trident for spearing fish (Job xli, 2 [in the Heb. xi, 31]). See Fishixg.^
Fisk, Ezra, D.D., a Presbyterian minister, was horn in Shelburne, Mass., Jan. 10, 1785, graduated at Williams College in 1809, and was licensed in 1810. After preaching for some months, he was ordained as an evangelist, and labored chiefly among destitute congregations of Georgia; after whicli he engaged as missionary in Philadelphia. In 1813 he was chosen pastor of the Presbyterian church in Goshen, N. Y., where he continued for upwards of twenty j-ears. He became a trustee of Williams College in 1823, and a rlirector of the Tlicological Seminary at Princeton in 1825 lie retired to Georgia in 1832 for his health.
and was appointed the following year professor of ec- clesiastical history and Church government in the Western Theological Seminary, and moderator of the General Assembly. He removed to Philadelphia, and died Dec. 5, 1833. He published An Oration delivered before the ISocietij of A liimni of Williams Colkge (1825) : — A Lecture on the Inability of Sinners (Phila. 1832) : — A Farewell Sermon (1833) : — Articles on Mental Science, in Church Advocate (1832). — Sprague, Annals, iv, 457.
Fisk, Pliny, a Congregational minister and mis^ sionarv, was born at Shelburne, Mass., June 24, 1792. He graduated at Middlebury College in 1814, studied theology at Andover, entered the ministry in January, 1814, and preached for a time in Wilmington, Yt. Having determined to be a missionarj% he was, with Mr. Levi Parsons, appointed b}' the American Board of Missions to the Palestine mission in September, 1818, and spent the winter travelling through the South, raising mone}' for the missionarj^ cause. With his colleague, he sailed from Boston for Smyrna, Nov. 3, 1819, and arrived at their port Jan. 15, 1820. The two missionaries spent some time in Scio to study modern Greek, then visited the "seven churches" in Asia Minor, and finallj' settled in Snij'rna. Early in 1822 Mr. Fisk accompanied Mr. Parsons to Egypt, where the latter died, Feb. 10. His successor, the Rev. J. King, met Mr. Fisk at Malta, and in April, 1823, they went, together with Mr. Wolff, by way of Egypt and the desert, to Judea. After visiting Jeru- salem and Beyrout, they visited the principal cities in Northern Syria to " spy out the land," and spent some part of 1824 at Damascus and Aleppo studying Arabic. In May, 1825, he joined the mission already established at Beyrout, and died there on the 23d of October fol- lowing. See Bond, Life cf Pliny Fisk (Boston, 1828, 12mo). — A merican Miss. Memorial, p. 254 ; Sprague, Annals, ii, 622.