Savage, John Adams, D.D., a Presbyterian di- vine, was born in Salem, Washington County, N. Y., Oct. 9, 1800. He received his preparatory training in Salem Academy; graduated at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., in 1822 ; studied theology privately ; was licensed to preach by Washington Associate Reformed Presby- tery in 1825, and ordained by the same presbytery in 1827. His first charge was at Fort Covington, Frank- lin County, N. Y., where he remained until 1832, when he was called to the church in Ogdensburg, N. Y. Here his labors were abundant and successful. He remained at Ogdensburg nearly twenty years, and probably no man ever exerted so wide and powerful an influence for religion and for Presbyterianism in Northern New York as he. In 1850, at the earnest solicitation of Dr. Van Rensselaer, then corresponding secretary of the Board of Education, he went to Wisconsin, and took charge of Carroll College, at Wauketa, then in its infancy. Here he labored arduoush' in founding and building up a college in a new country. The charter had been ob- tained, and some little progress made in the enterprise before his arrival, but properly Dr. Savage is to be re- garded as the founder of Carroll College. He died Dec. 13, 1804. Dr. Savage was a man of great sagacity, deep piety, and excellence of character; as a preacher, able and instructive; as a theologian, clear, sound, and scriptural, well meriting the honorarj' degree of D.D. conferred on liim by his alma mater after his assump- tion of the presidency of the college. See Wilson, Presh, Hist. A Imatiac, 18G6, p. 167. (J.\. S.)
Savage, Samuel Morton, D.D., a learned In- dependent minister, was born in London in 1721, and educated under Dr. .Jennings. He became professor of divinity at Hoxton ; assistant minister of St. jMary Axe, London, in 1747 ; and sole pastor in 175G. He died in 1791. He iiublished Sermons on several evangelical and jtractical subjects (Taunton, 1796, 8vo).
Savage, Thomas, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Boston, Mass., Sept. 2, 1794. He pursued his preparatory studies at Phillips Academy, in Andover; graduated with honor iit Harvard University, Cam- bridge ; and St udied theology at the divinity school con- nected with that institution. In 1815 he accepted an invitation to become a private tutor in Louisiana, in the vicinity of Baton Rouge, where he continued to teach and preach for nearly seven years. In 1824 he returned to Boston, and on Jidy 5, 1826, was installed pastor of the church in Bedford, N. II., which pastorate lasted forty years. He died INIay 8, 1866. Mr. Savage pos- sessed a truly symmetrical character. His ministry was in conformity with such a character. He was a practical and impressive preacher, and an accurate scholar — excelling perhaps in the classics, but familiar with the best models of his native tongue. See Wil- son, Presb. Hist. A Imanac, 1867, p. 196. (J. L. S.)
Sav'aran {'S.avapav v. r. Avapch'), an erroneous form (1 iSIacc. vi, 43) for Avakan (q, v.), an epithet of the Maccabee Eleazar {q. v.).
Savary, N., a French writer and traveller. In 1776 he visited I'.gypt, and studied the antiquities and man- ners of the coinitry. On iiis return he visited tlie Ar- chipelago, and in 1780 puldished his translation of the Koran, which was succeeded by his Travels in K'/upt, Letters on (Greece, and a Grammar of (he Modern Arabic. He died in 1788.
Savastano, Francesco Eulalia, an Italian poet, was born in 1657 at Naples, where he died Oct. 23, 1717, He was a Jesuit, preached successfullj', and taught rhetoric, philosophy, and theology in the College of Naples. He is the author of a Latin poem entitled Bo- tunicorum Liber. — Iloefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s. v.
Savi'as (Sni;(«), a corrupt Grcecized form (1 Esdr. viii, 2) of the Ileb. name Uzzi (q. v.), the ancestor of Ezra (Ezra vii, 4).
Savigni, Okdeu of, a religious body connected with the Romish Church, founded in the 12th century by Vitalis de jMortain, a disciple of the famous Robert of Arbiscelle, who instituted the Order of Fontevraud. The Order of Savigni, after continuing for a time, be- came merged in that of the Cistercians (q. v.). — Gard- ner, Faiths of the World, s. v.
Saviour, a title applied in Scripture, in its highest sense, to Jesus Christ, but in a subordinate way to earthly deliverers. (In the present article we substan- tially adopt that found in Smith's Diet, of the Bible.')
I. The IVord itself. — The term " Saviour," as applied to our Lord Jesus Christ, represents the Greek soter {(tojtIip), which in turn represents certain derivatives from the Hebrew root yashd (I/'d^), particularly the participle of the Hiphil form moshia (S'^IIJI^), which is usually rendered "Saviour" in the A.V. (e. g. Isa. xlvi, 15 ; xiix, 26). In considering the true import of " Sav- iour," it is essential for us to examine the original terms answering to it, including in our view the use of soter in the Sept., whence it was more immediately derived by the writers of the New Test., and further noticing the cognate terms "to save" and "salvation,'' which express respectively the action and the results of the Saviour's office. See Jesus.
1. The term soter is of more frequent occurrence in the Sept. than the term " Saviour" in the A. V. of the Old Test. It represents not only the word moshia above mentioned, but also very frequently the nouns 7jesha (5?1IJ^) and yeshuuh (n^'T^"]), which, though properly expressive of the abstract notion " salvation," are yet sometimes used in a concrete sense for "Saviour." We may cite as an example Isa. lii, 11, "Behold, thy salva- tion Cometh, Iris reward is with him," where evidently " salvation" = iSufioMc. So again in passages where these terms are connected immediately with the person of the Godhead, as in Psa. Ixviii, 20, '■ the God our Sav- iour" (A. V. " God of our salvation"). Not only in such cases as these, but in many others where the sense does not require it, the Sept. has soter where the A. Y. has •'salvation;'' and thus the word "Saviour" was more familiar to the ear of the reader of the Old Test, in our Lord's age than it is to us.