SUMMARY"The Masons of Tyre" (Tito): 1 Kings 7:13-14 (Hiram from Tyre, "a widow's son... filled with wisdom... to work all works in brass"); 2 Chronicles 2:14 ("skilful to work in gold, silver, brass, iron, stone, and timber"). Hiram Abiff = central figure of the Masonic Third Degree legend. Record. Lens: the master builder in the lodges' own legend was a man of Tyre (Phoenician); the builders' line vs. the 1717 club.