Editing Limbo (section)

===Latin Fathers===
In countering [[Pelagius]], who denied original sin, Saint [[Augustine of Hippo]] was led to state that because of original sin, "such infants as quit the body without being baptized will be involved in the mildest condemnation of all. That person, therefore, greatly deceives both himself and others, who teaches that they will not be involved in condemnation; whereas the apostle says: 'Judgment from one offence to condemnation' ([[Romans 5]]:16), and again a little after: 'By the offence of one upon all persons to condemnation'."<ref>{{bibleverse|Romans|5:18}}</ref><ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/15011.htm On Merit and the Forgiveness of Sins, and the Baptism of Infants]; cf. [https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/cti_documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20070419_un-baptised-infants_en.html#_ftn41 Study by the International Theological Commission], 22 April 2007], 15–18]</ref>

In 418, the [[Councils of Carthage#Council of 418|Council of Carthage]], a synod of North African bishops which included Augustine of Hippo, did not explicitly endorse all aspects of Augustine's stern view about the destiny of infants who die without baptism, but stated in some manuscripts<ref>[https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/cti_documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20070419_un-baptised-infants_en.html#_ftn41 Study by the International Theological Commission], 22 April 2007, footnote 41]</ref><ref name=CCAC/> "that there is no intermediate or other happy dwelling place for children who have left this life without Baptism, without which they cannot enter the kingdom of heaven, that is, eternal life".<ref name=CCAC>[http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3816.htm Canon 110 of the Code of Canons of the African Church]</ref><ref>[https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/cti_documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20070419_un-baptised-infants_en.html#_ftn41 Study by the International Theological Commission], 22 April 2007, 19]</ref> So great was Augustine's influence in the West, however, that the Latin Fathers of the 5th and 6th centuries (e.g., [[Jerome]], [[Avitus of Vienne]], and [[Gregory the Great]]<ref>The subject of children who die prematurely is also dealt with by Gregory of Nyssa in his work entitled ''Ad Hierium Cappadociae prefectum de infantibus qui praematurae abripiuntur'' ([https://web.archive.org/web/20250219093515/http://www.lectio-divina.org/images/nyssa/Concerning%20Infants%20who%20have%20Died%20Prematurely.pdf×To the Prefect Hierus of Cappadocia Concerning Infants Who Have Died Prematurely).</ref>) did adopt his position.<ref>[https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/cti_documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20070419_un-baptised-infants_en.html#_ftn41 Study by the International Theological Commission, 22 April 2007], 20</ref>