3. In
addition to the harm done to Christians in these regards, other unreasonable
matters can result in even greater loss and danger. The most serious is that
some households of the great have employed a Jew as
"Superintendent-of-the-Household"; in this capacity, they not only
administer domestic and economic matters, but they also ceaselessly exhibit and
flaunt authority over the Christians they are living with. It is now even
commonplace for Christians and Jews to intermingle anywhere. But what is even
less comprehensible is that Jews fearlessly keep Christians of both sexes in
their houses as their domestics, bound to their service. Furthermore, by means
of their particular practice of commerce, they amass a great store of money and
then by an exorbitant rate of interest utterly destroy the wealth and
inheritance of Christians. Even if they borrow money from Christians at heavy
and undue interest with their synagogues as surety, it is obvious to anyone who
thinks about it that they do so to employ the money borrowed from Christians in
their commercial dealings; this enables them to make enough profit to pay the
agreed interest and simultaneously increase their own store. At the same time,
they gain as many defenders of their synagogues and themselves as they have
creditors.
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