3/8/2023 0 Comments Limbo hell![]() ![]() ![]() LIMBUS PATRUM.-Though it can hardly be claimed, on the evidence of extant literature, that a definite and consistent belief in the limbus patrum of Christian tradition was universal among the Jews, it cannot on the other hand be denied that, more especially in the extracanonical writings of the second or first centuries B.C., some such belief finds repeated expression and New-Testament references to the subject remove all doubt as to the current Jewish belief in the time of Christ. In this article we shall deal only with the theological meaning and connotation of the word. The not unnatural transition from the theological to the literary usage is exemplified in Shakespeare, “ Henry VIII“, act v, sc. (2) In literary usage the name is sometimes applied in a wider and more general sense to any place or state of restraint, confinement, or exclusion, and is practically equivalent to “prison” (see, e.g., Milton, “Paradise Lost”, III, 495 Butler, “Hudibras”, part II, canto i, and other English classics). (I) In theological usage the name is applied (a) to the temporary place or state of the souls of the just who, although purified from sin, were excluded from the beatific vision until Christ’s triumphant ascension into heaven (the limbus patrum) or (b) to the permanent place or state of those unbaptized children and others who, dying without grievous personal guilt, are excluded from the beatific vision on account of original sin alone (the limbus infantium or puerorum). limbus), a word of Teutonic derivation, meaning literally “hem or “border”, as of a garment, or anything joined on (cf. ![]()
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