and the deaths of Samson and Saul offer no satisfactory parallel (comp. Grimm, ad foe.).— Smith.
Razor is the rendering in the A. V. of the following words: I. """. morah' (Sept oiSripog, %vpov; Vulg. novacula, ferrum: from r.~"C. ••scrape." or "sweep." Gesenius connects it with the root R^Ji, " to fear" [7'/<e- saur. p. 810]). This word occurs in Judg. xiii. 5; \vi, 17; 1 Sam. i. 11. 2. ~l'T. ta'ar (Sept pOfKpaia ; Vulg. gladius: from iYIS, to lay bare), a more general term (Numb. vi. 5; l'.-a.'lii. 2; [sa. vii, 20; Ezek. v, 1) for a sharp lnij'i (as rendered in Jer. xxvi. -J.'!) or sword i -sheath." 1 Sam. xvii, 51, etc. ; although many regard this as a different word of the same form I. The barber is designated by ~:r>. gaUab' (Sept. Kovptvt;; Vulg. tonsor,2 Sam. xx, 8). "Besides other usages, the prac- tice of shaving the head after the completion of a VOW must have created among the .lews a necessity for the special trade of a barber (Numb, vi, !>. 18 ; viii. 7 ; Lev. xiv. 8; Judg. xiii. 5; Isa. vii. 20; Ezek. v. 1; Acts xviii. 18). The instruments of his work were probably, as in modern times, the razor, the basin, the mirror, and perhaps, also, the scissors, such as are described by Lu- cian {Adv. Tndoct. ii. 395> ed. Amst; see 2 "Sam. xiv, 26). The process of Oriental shaving, and especially of the head, is minutely described by Chardin (Voy. iv, 111). It may be remarked that, like the Levites, the Egyptian priests were accustomed to shave their whole bodies I Herod, ii. 36, 37)" (Smith). The Psalm- ist compares the tongue ofDoeg to a sharp ra Psa, Iii. 2) starling aside from what should be its true oper- ation to a cruel purpose and effect. In the denuncia- tion of the woes that were to he brought upon .ludah ill
the time of Aha/, by the instrumentality of the Assyr- ians, we have the remarkable expression. " In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired.
he had forgotten the most essential point, whether thev "amely, by them beyond the river, by the king of As-
were able to marry; this question was very fully treated >.vri;1- ''"' 1|,,;"1- ;""1 ""' ,,;lir of tl"' lri ' ; ■'""' " >lia"
in his work Traite des Eunuques (1707,4to): Hercules also consume the heard" (Isa. vii, 20). Ii seems likely
Commodianm (Aix, 1565, 8vo); under the name lh.no- thai there is here an implication of contempt as well as
rat Li ..lard; n is a virulent Batire against dean de Lau- suffering, as the office of a barber ambulanl has seldom
noi: — Trias Fortium David (Lyons, 1657, tto); re- been esteemed of any dignity either in the East or West
marks upon Robert d'Arbrissel, St Bernard, and Cesar of I !u~: Missi Evangelici ad Siwas, Japionam et Oras i \mu. j Lyons] 1659, 8vo); under the name of Leger Quintin: — 0 Parascevasticum (Lyons, 1661, tto): Hagiologium Lugdunenst (ibid. 1662, 8vo) : — De
To shave with the hind razor the head, the feet, and the heard is an expression highly parabolical, to denote the niter devastation of the country from one end to the other, and the plundering of the people from the highest to the lowest bv the Assyrians, whom God em-
■' iutorum Cyriacorum aCensvra (ibid. 1662, P10.^ ** ,lis instrument to punish the rebellious Jews. 8vo). See Dupin, BibliotLdes Auteurs Eccles.; \ice- ron. Memoires, vol. xxvi. His Life, written by him-
self, is preserved in the Jesuit Library at Lyons. Sec also Sotwei, Script. Soc.Jesu. -Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Ge- nt rale, -. v.
Ra'zis i'I'./.mc. Vulg. Raziai), '-one of the elders of Jerusalem," who killed himself under peculiarly ter- rible circumstances, that he might not fall "into the hands of the wicked" (2 Mace, xiv. 37 16). In dying
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in the village ofTully, Inland, in 1772. He emigrated to the United States in 1799, and. after remaining at Philadelphia a short time, "1 left on foot," he says, ••travelled mostly alone through the wilderness, sad. gloomy, and dispirited, until, after many days. I arrived wesl ol the Uleghany Mountains, stopping at the house of Mr. Porter, a Presbvterian minister." He now la-
he is reported to have expressed his faith in a resurrec- bored and struggled amid many .adverse circumstances tion (ver. 16) a belief elsewhere characteristic of the to secure a literary course of education, teaching school Maoahaan conflict This act of suicide, which was | and studying alternately, until he graduated with honor
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at Jefferson College, when it was only a small school kept in a log-cabin near Canonsburg, Pa. He studied theology under the direction of Dr. John M'Millan, was licensed by the Ohio Presbytery in June, 1803, and, af- ter itinerating awhile in the wilderness of Eastern Ohio among some Indian camps, he was appointed to supply the newly organized churches of Beechsprings and Crabapple, over which he was ordained and installed pastor in 1805. The country was settled rapidly, and his charges grew as fast, so that it soon became neces- sary to have the relation between these two churches dissolved, that he might labor all his time at the Beech- springs. "So untiring and devoted was this servant of Christ that, besides constantly ministering to his own large congregation, he found time to be instrumental in raising up some six or seven separate societies that went out as colonies from the mother Church, and are now self-sustaining and prominent congregations." He died, after a ministry of fifty-two years, Feb. 12. 1855. Dr. Kea was pastor of the Church at Beechsprings forty- five years, and the history of the Presbyterian Church in Eastern Ohio is closely connected with his biography. He was a close, persevering student, clear in the ar- rangement of his subject, original in his thinking, and independent in thought and expression. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1867. p. 193. (J. L. S.)