Isaac paused at the gate, to consider how he might seek entrance in the manner most likely to bespeak favour; for he was well aware, that to his unhappy race the reviving fanaticism of the Order was not less dangerous than their unprincipled licentiousness; and that his religion would be the object of hate and persecution in the one case, as his wealth would have exposed him in the other to the extortions of unrelenting oppression.
Tudta, hogy a rend újjászületett hitbuzgósága éppen olyan veszedelmes az ő számára, mint korábbi féktelen szabadossága. Mert most a vallás az, ami a rend tagjainak szemében elegendő ok a gyűlöletre és üldözésre, míg régebben a zsidó vagyona csábított kegyetlenkedésre és zsarolásra.