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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