150. [151.] 18. Angels marveled that there was in the Christian domain such a multitude of people totally ignorant of the fact that religion is a matter of life, supposing religion to consist in thinking this or that and in being absolved from every obligation of life by what they thought, a conclusion that they came to by the idea that they had been set free from the yoke of the law by the Lord's merit, that no one can do good of himself, and that if one does, it is merit-seeking-and this even though it is so far removed from a religion of life as to be no religion at all.