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that their condition is one of happiness,.

Whatever name may be used in apocryphal Jewish literature to designate the abode of the departed just, the implication generally is 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 extra-canonical 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.

The Church actually does not promote any other possible alternative answer thean what she professes where the souls of the just went prior to Christ’s Resurrection. Lazarus’ resurrection (shortly before Christ’s Passion), like those who rose from the grave after the Death of Jesus makes sense only if their souls were separated from their bodies and were in what the Church teaches as the Limbo of the Fathersĥ2 And the graves were opened: and many bodies of the saints that had slept arose,ĥ3 And coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, came into the holy city, and appeared to many. By the time Jesus arrived, Lazarus had been dead for four days. Many scriptures liken death to sleep from which God has the power to awaken people. Jesus knew Lazarus was dead, but in God’s eyes death is like a deep sleep. I guess the most classic answer according to Catholicism was that he was in the Limbo of the Fathers.

Does the Catholic Church teach where Lazarus’ soul was before being resurrected?