When Judah returns home, Esther wishes that he rest and find peace - the message she had just heard in the sermon on the hill. I tell you, every man in Judea is unclean and will stay unclean until we've scoured off our bodies the crust and filth of being at the mercy of tyranny. No other life is possible except to wash this land clean. Yes, in blood. That blood begets more blood as dog begets dog.
Death generates death.
The vulture breeds the vulture. But the voice I heard on the hill today said, 'Love your enemy. Everything I do from this moment will be as great a pain to you as you have ever suffered. You seem to be now the very thing you set out to destroy, giving evil for evil. Hatred is turning you to stone.