
Wisdom 3:1 - Hugh Stowell Gill Memorial - Andreas, Isle of Man
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" The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God ." is a quote from the Bible apocrypha on a Memorial to Hugh Stowell Gill and his Margaret mounted on an interior wall of St. Andrew in the village of Andreas.
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Location: Isle of Man
Date Posted: 10/07/2017
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The Memorial to Hugh Stowell Gill is mounted on an interior wall of St. Andrew in the village of Andreas. The Memorial is an irregular-shaped white marble tablet inscribed with black lettering. The quote from Wisdom 3:1 is etched at the foot of the Memorial Tablet.
The full inscription of the Memorial is shown below:
In Loving Memory of
HUGH STOWELL GILL, M.A.,
FOR 17 YEARS RECTOR OF THIS PARISH
AND ARCHDEACON OF MAN.
BORN MARCH 26TH 1830. DIED MAY 13TH 1912.
AND OF HIS WIFE
MARGARET,
DAUGHTER OF JOHN LLEWELLYN,
FORMERLY HIGH BAILIFF OF PEEL.
BORN FEBRUARY 8TH 1832. DIED AUGUST 3RD 1912.
The Wisdom of Solomon is a book in the ‘apocrypha’ which were published in the original 1611 King James Bible.
The Bible apocrypha denotes a collection of apocrypha ancient books found in some versions of Christian Bibles in a separate section between the Old and New Testaments, or as an appendix after the New Testaments. Some Christian Churches include some or all of the same texts within the body of their version of the Old Testament. (Source: (
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