co-operated with idolatrous pagan institutions are beyond redemption’.70 Kraybill comments that ‘people who love greed and violence more than the kingdom of God will have excluded themselves’.71 Kraybill reflects more the work of Yarbro Collins when he observes the joy of the saints at the fall of Babylon.72 He comments in the same interpretative way as Yarbro Collins: ‘The bile of the book pours out as a catharsis of emotion, offered to God as the only one capable of redressing the situation’.73