[De communione et conversatione Iudaeorum et Christianorum]

Council. 17th question, 4th chapter. The holy council has established that Jews, or those who are from the Jews, namely their families, must not seek public offices which, under this occasion, do injury to Christians. Therefore, secular and ecclesiastical judges must not permit them to do such things. If anyone has permitted such things, let him be struck with excommunication as a sacrilegious person, and he who has dared—namely the Jew—shall be deputed to public sessions, namely by corporal, temporal, or pecuniary penalty. The same is held in Extra de Iudaeis, chapter "Cum sit nimis absurdum": that a blasphemer of Christ should exercise the power of authority over Christians, which was decided upon the Toledo Council 1. We renew this in this general council, prohibiting that Jews be preferred to public offices, since under such pretext they are very hostile to Christians. If anyone has entrusted such an office to them, let it be checked by a provincial council, which we order to be celebrated every year, with the admonition first given and the distraint that is appropriate. But let the officials of this kind be denied the convenience of Christians in commerce and other things, until what was obtained from Christians on the occasion of the office thus received is turned into the uses of poor Christians according to the provision of the diocesan bishop, and let him dismiss the office with shame, which he assumed irreverently. This same is extended, the text concludes, to pagans. For this, there is the chapter "Ex speciali," also which admits if perhaps the king returns; there it is said he sold to the Jews or pagans of Portugal: then let the Christians appoint an official who is not suspect, through whom the Jews or Saracens or the injury of Christians, the royal rights are followed. The gloss says: Thus Joseph was the steward of the house of Pharaoh, of which Genesis 45, and 22nd question, 2nd chapter "Quae autem." Thus, it is regularly a sacrilege according to the laws to entrust a public office to Jews.

If no Christian leaves anything in a will to any Jew, the same is true for a pagan and heretic. It is clear from the African Council, which is placed in Extra de Haereticis, chapter "Si quis episcopus": if he institutes strangers, namely heretics, as heirs, or has preferred pagans over his own consanguinity, let him be anathematized at least after his death, and let his name not be recited among the priests of God. And the text follows, extending it to other clerics. The gloss gives the reason: that such people as these are not friends or consanguineous...