Limbus
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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1):
(n.) A border or margin; as, the limbus of the cornea.
(2):
(n.) Hence: Any real or imaginary place of restraint or confinement; a prison; as, to put a man in limbo.
(3):
(n.) An extramundane region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the judgment.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
(See Limbo).
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [3]
ccording to Catholic theologians a region on the confines of Hades tenanted, the limbus patrum , by the souls of good men who died before Christ's advent, and the limbus infantium , by the souls of unbaptized infants, both of whom await there the resurrection morn to join the ransomed in heaven.
