458. That this love is the repository of the Christian religion is because that religion makes one with the love, and cohabits with it; for it has been shown that no others come into that love and can be in it save those who approach the Lord, love the truths of His Church, and do its goods (nos. 70, 71); that that love is from the Lord alone, and hence is with those who are of the Christian religion (nos. 131, 335, 336); that that love is according to the state of the Church because according to the state of wisdom with man (no. 130). All this is confirmed in the entire chapter on its correspondence with the marriage of the Lord and the Church (nos. 116-31); and In the chapter On the origin of that love from the marriage of good and truth (nos. 83-102).
