According to AELRED
The name Babylon, which is translated 'confusion' signifies the world .... everything is confused, where the good live with the evil and the elect with the reprobate, whre teh grain is mixed with the chaff, the oil withthe dregs, and the wine with the residue, where the just and unjust are on an equal footing in temporal matters, and where human beings are no better off than beasts. For here one who lives reasonably as a human gets no reward, and one who becomes a beast through carnal vices gets no suitable punishment for wrongs done.
Elias Dietz, OCSO, Amivalence well considered in
Cistercian Studies Quarterly, Volume 47.1, 2012
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