[De communione et conversatione Iudaeorum et Christianorum]

not, however, that they exalt them, or make them wider or more precious than they are known to have been before; which, indeed, ought to be taken for a great deal that they are tolerated in the old synagogues with their observances. The gloss says that Emperor Constantine transferred the freedom to churches and subjected the Jews to servitude. Afterwards, however, Emperor Julian the Apostate gave them license to build new synagogues, as the chronicles say.

Fifth admonition

Jews are not permitted to open their windows and doors on the day of the Passover referring to Good Friday. Alexander III says in the chapter "Super his" (extra de Iudaeis): "Generally forbid that the Jews have their doors or windows open on the day of the Passover, but keep them closed all day, for then they have been accustomed to act against the Christians in insult to the Creator." The law says: "Since they despise our faith, we do not permit their rites to them; rather, on that day, and on the days of lamentation and the Lord's Passion, no Jew of either sex should presume to appear in public." So it is said in the cited chapter "In nonnullis." On the days of lamentation and the Lord's Passion, they should not go out into public at all, for some, as we have heard, on such days, being adorned, do not blush to walk about, and they do not fear to mock the Christians who show signs of lamentation, holding the memory of the most holy Passion. And thus they render to us great insult and contempt. But we strictly inhibit that they presume to leap into insult of the Creator. And because we ought not to dissemble the opprobrium of Him who destroyed our oppressions, we command that such presumers be repressed by secular princes with the addition of worthy punishment, lest they presume in any way to blaspheme the Crucified through us. The gloss says: they must be punished by pecuniary or other worthy punishment according to the judgment of the judge, since it does not advert to spiritual punishment, nor can it directly punish those things, since they are outside the Church and "what have I to do to judge them that are without?" (Paul, as per the gloss on the chapter "Per miserabile", extra de usuris). It is understood in one way that it is nothing to us insofar as they offend God, and in another way insofar as they offend man. In the second way, it is understood concerning direct coercion, which...