^^i'O'O, masger, smith, occurs in 2 Kings xxiv, 14, 16; Sept, cri'yicXtiaij/ ; Jer. xxiv, 1 ; xxix, 2 ; Vulg. clusor, or inclusor. Buxtorf gives •' claustrarius, faber ferra- rius." The root "ilD, to close, indicates artisans "with busy hammers closing rivets up," which suits the con- text better than other renderings, as setters of precious stones, seal-engravers, etc.
In the New Test, we meet with Demetrius, " the sil- versmith," at Ephesus, opytipo/coTroc, "a worker in sil- ver;" Vulg. argentarius ; but the commentators are not agreed whether he was a manufacturer of small silver models of the Temple of Diana, vaovq apyvpovQ, or, at least, of the chapel which contained the famous statue of the goddess, to be sold to foreigners, or used in pri- vate devotion, or taken with them by travellers as a safeguard ; or whether he made large coins represent- ing the temple and image. Beza, Scaliger, and others understand a coiner or mint- master (see Kuinol, otZ loc). That the word may signify a silver-/oKM(/(-»- is clear from the Sept. rendering of Jer. vi, 29. From Plutarch {Opji. ix, 301, 473, ed. Reisk.) and Hesychius it appears that the word signifies any worker in silver or money. A copperswitk named Alexander is mentioned as an opponent of Paul (2 Tim. iv, 14). — Kitto.
Other Heb. terms substantially indicating the handi- craft of a smith are: t'ljib, lotesh ; iiQ\i\.. (y(pi'poKinroQ ; Vulg. midleator, a hammerer ( A. V. " instructor" ) ; a term applied to Tubal-cain in Gen. iv, 22 (see Gesen. Thesanr. p. 530, 755; Saalschiitz, Arch. Hebr. i, 143); and cbin, hoUm ; Sept. 6 ri'iTTioi', he that smites (A. V. "smootheth") the anvil (C^'B, afiipa, incus), Isa. xli, 7.
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A deaoription of a smith's workshop is given in Ecclus. xxxviii.2s.— Smith. See Meiiiamc.
Smith, Albert, D.D., a Coiitirefjational minister ami tfiuliiT. was iMirn in Mihon, Vt., Feb. lo. 1.S04. In lt<JCi lu- wint ti> nartr«iril. Conn., and l)opan a course of study preparatory to enierini; upon the profession of the law. lie s<ion after experienceil a chanj^e of heart, which als4) liriiu;;ht a chanj^c in his views of Hfe, anil led liim to turn his attention to the ministry. lie srraduated at Middlehury Colle^'e. Vt.. in 1831 ; also at Andover The- olofjical .Seminary in 1835; and in \KM>. havinj; been licensed by Andover Ouigrejiational Association, he was ordained by the Conjrrejiaiional Council, and became pastor of the Ct>nnrei;ational Church at Williamstown, Mass. In is;>'.t he was called to the professorship of lannuaf;es in .Marshall ColUf^e, Mercersburj;. Fa., and in 1H41 to the chair of rhetoric and oratory in his alma mater at .Middlebury. Vt. In l^Ab he returned to the ministry, and became pastor of tlie Church in Vernon, C-onn.. where he remained till 1854, when, compelled by declininj; health, he removed to IVru. Ind. In the .""ummer i>f 1S55 he was eniploye<l in Duipioin, in the southern part of Illinois, in the service of the Home Missionary .Siciety ; and in the fall of that year he set- tled at Monticello, 111., where he died, April 24, 18t)3. ])r. .Smith was a man of uncommon intellectual power. He was an accurate and elotpient writer, an acute and prnfouuil theologian, and a wise, faitliful, and affec- tionate pastor. See Wilson, I'lfub. UiM. Almanac, 18<>4. p. 321; Coni/rryalkinal Qtuirterli/, 18G3, p. 349. (.1. L. S. )
Smith, A. B., a minister of the Methodist Episco- pal Church, was born on Hell Creek, Fayette Co., West Va.. .Iinie 13, 182".>. He joined the Church in his thir- teenth year. He was received into the West Virginia Omference in the spring; of 1850, took a superannuated relation in 18t;2, but was ordained elder in 18G3, He was made elVeciive in \XGH. but died in the spring of lH7i(. See Miiiiitt.1 <>/ Annual Con/iTtnces, 1871, p. 40,
Smith, Alexander J., a minister of the Method- ist llpiscopal Church, was born in .South Carolina in 1831. He united with the Church when nine years of Riiv, and was licensed to i)reach and admitted on trial in the Mississippi Conference, ^Methodist Episcopal Church, .South, in 1855. After being ordained elder, he was located at his own reipiest. He was admitted into the .\rkansas Conference of the ^lethodist Episco- pal Church in 18(19, and labored faithfully until his death, Feb. 2, 1875, See Minutes of Annual Con/er- eiter», 1875, p. 158.
Smith, Alexander L., a minister of the Meth- odist KpJM-opal Church. South, was born in Marlborough District, .S. C, Dec. 5, 1823, and was received into the South Carolina Conference in 1847. He remained ef- fective for twenty years, supernumerary one year, and ttuperannuate<t for nearly four years. He died in Spar- tanburg, S. C., Aug. 25, 1872. " See .Uini/tes of Annual L'ouj'titncif* of M. E. 67/., South, 1872, p. G71.
Smith, Amos, a minister of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, was Ixirn in Frederick County, Va., April 30, I7'.t.'i, and professed conversion in 18|l. " He served as a w.ldier during the war of 1812, after which he stud- ie<l in Asbury College, Haltimore. In 1820 he was ad- mitted on trial into the Haliimore Conference, and thus commenced a long life of usefulness. He was ordained deacon .S-pt. 29, 1822, and elder April to, 182."). In 1839 he wa.H appointed to the <)Hice of presi.ling elder, but wa-t compelled to re-sign, on account of ill-health, in the winter of 1841 42. He became a member of the East IJaliimore Conference upon its formation in 1857, and in iKtlJ wasi a HU|)eraniniate, coniiiuiing, however, to preach frinpiently. He died .Ian. 20, I8(>8, See J/j;j- Ulr> n/\\„n„„l fnii/ireiirrii, |8(;8, p. •>9.