Word: limbus
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...infant was elected for salvation, Calvin held, lack of baptism could not keep him from it, and if he was damned to hell, baptism could not save him. Beginning with Thomas Aquinas, Catholics began to consign unbaptized children to a fringe of hell called Limbo (from the Latin limbus, meaning hem or border), in which they exist in a state as happy as possible for worldly creatures but are denied for all eternity the supreme happiness of heaven...
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