Right. You didn't answer the question. Glad that's done.
Not when the question turns on St. Alphonsus's definition, which I quoted and referred to in posing the question.
Hopefully we're done, and I'll discuss the issue with others who want to address the question.
"Stated differently: weren't the OT saints justified by something meeting the definition of an "implicit" baptism of desire?"
Three times I've answered this question.
Not my fault you can neither read nor remember your own words.
Of course the problem is not that I "didn't answer the question", which I have three times now. The problem is that I haven't given you the answer you want: that Baptism of Desire somehow saved souls before either salvation or baptism was a thing.