UPHARSIN
668
UPPER CHAMBER
rested his attention, and. after a severe striigt;le, he accepted Clirist as liis Savioiir. By his conversion, all his lilV-plaus were chanijed, and he resolved to devote himself to the service of the Lord. He became a member of the First Baptist Church in Providence, K. I., in the fall of 1832, and the Cluircli srave him its approval in his purpose to enter the Christian ministry. Want of means com|ielled him to leave college at tlie close of his second year, and lie spent the next three years in teachins;; in Wick- ford, K. I. Here he labored not only in his special vocation as a teacher, but as a Christian, and the existence of the Church in Wickford is largely ow- ing to his toils and sacrifices. He removed to Ludlow, Vt., in I80G, and was for a time principal of the Black Hiver Academy. He was ordained to the (iospcl ministry in LutUow in November, 1837, and in Ueceml)er of the following year he became pastor of tiie Second Baptist Church in Townshend, Vt. He secured from the outset the affecticnis of his people, and his labors were great- ly blessed. A few years only of service in the cause he so much loved were allotted to him. Four years and a few months he remained in the pastoral office, and tlien was called to a better world. His death occurred June 30, 1843, See Baptist Memorial, ii, 269. (J. C. S.)
Uphar'sin (Dan. v, 25). See IMiiNE.
U'phaz ( Heb. Uphaz', fS^X, signif. uncertain; Sept. M(.j0«,^, 'Q<pac,; Vulg. Ophaz, obn/ziim), the name of a gold region (Jer. x, 9; Dan. x, 5), like Tarshish and Ophir (comp. Psa. xlv, 10; 1 Chron. xxxix, 4), and hence thought by most expositors to be a corruption of the latter name (so the Targum, Syriac, and Theodo- tion). Fiirst, however, suggests {/Jeb. Lex. s. v.) that it may be compounded of ^IX, wns/i, and TD, pure gold; and that since it is interchanged with Sheba (Psa. Ixxii, 15), it may be regarded as the name of a gold wash in South- ern Arabia, Its resemblance to Miip/iaz (tS'^O; A. V. " best") in 1 Kings x, 18 is perhaps not accidental. See Ui'Jiiii.
Upis, in Greek mythology, was a surname of Diana. A certain tutoress was also called so, and likewise a nymph of Diana. Upis was, likewise, the name of a Hyperborean woman who, with Arge, paid a tribute to Delos for Diana, according to an oath respecting the birth of Apollo. Again, Lipis was the name of the father of Diana, husband of Glauce, Lastly, it was a surname of .Xeme;iis.
Upper Chamber (or Room) (n'slpS'i aHyah, as in modern Arabic; 2 Kings i, 2; xxiii, 12; 1 Chron. xxviii, 11:2 Chron. iii, 9; "summer-parlor," Jtidg. iii, 23; '•loft," 1 Kingsxvii, 19,23; '"chamber over the gate," 2 Sam. xviii, 33; elsewhere "chamber" simply; uv(i)- jtov, Mark xiv, 15; Luke xxii, 12; inrip(iiov, Acts i, 13; ix, 37, 39; xx, 8), a sort of guest-chamber not in common use, in the upper part of the house, where the Orientals received company and held feasts, and where at other times they retired for prayer and meditation
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House with an Allyah.
Front View of the Balcony of a "Chamber on the Widl."
(Mark xiv, 15; Luke xxii, 12). Among the Hebrews it seems to have been on, or connected with, the flat roofs of their dwellings; in Greek houses it occupied the upper story (1 Kings xvii, 19, 22; 2 Kings iv, 10; Acts i, 13 ; ix, 37, 39 ; x, 9 ;■ xx, 8). Robinson describes the "upper room of a respectable house at Kamleh as a large airy hall, forming a sort of third story upon the flat roof of the house" {Bibl, Res. iii, 26). Jowett de- scribes the chief room in the houses of Havali (opposite Lesbos) as in the upper or third story, secluded, spacious, and commodious, " higher and larger than those below, having two projecting windows, and the whole floor so much extended in front beyond the lower part of the building that the projecting windows overhung the street" {Christ. Res. p. 67). From such a chamber, Eutj'chns, who was sitting on the window, or on an ele- vated divan, fell through the window into the street (Acts XX, 6-12). In 2 Kings i, 2 we are told that Aha- ziah "fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria." Indeed, it is likely that those accidents were by no means rare in the East. A person accommodated here can go in and out with perfect in- dependence of the main building of the inner court, into which he probably never enters, and does not in the least interfere with the arrangements of the family. A visitor or friend is almost never accommodated any- where else, and certainly never in the interior court (Kitto, rirt. Bible, liote in 2 Kings iv, 10). Itich luxu- rious men are charged with sinfully multiplying cham- bers of this sort (Jer. xxii, 13, 14). As spoken of by the prophet, they would seem to have been both large and built for the purposes of comfort and luxury. W^e find accordingly frequent mention made of them in cojmection with kings, who ajtpear to have used them as smumer-hnuses for their coolness (Judg. iii, 20; 2 Kings i, 2; xxiii, 12). ^ The summer-house spoken of in Script- ure was very seldom a separate building. The lower past of the house was the winter -house, the upper room was the summer- house. If they are on the same story, the outer apartment is the summer - house, the inner is the winter-house (Thomson, Land and Hook, i, 235 ; Robinson, Bibl. Res. iii, 417), We find the upper rooms allocated to the use of those proph- ets whom it was wished to honor particidarly (1 Kings xvii. 19; 2 Kings iv, 10). They were also used