“You refer to the twenty Church Councils which have been held here. The Christians are never united.”
Eleazar did not answer.
“Excuse me,” continued the stranger, “but I forgot who you are, and that you would rather forget the last Council.”
“No, not at all! why should I?”
“It was directed against your people.”
“And my only son, who was about to marry a Christian maiden, had to give her up, since marriages with Jews were forbidden....”
“Well! and what was the end of it?”
“He could not survive it, but laid hands on himself, and, as she followed him in death, the blame was laid on us, and we lost our property and freedom.”
“Eleazar!” exclaimed the stranger. “Don’t you know me?”
“No.”