Before the Last Judgment, Jews were for the most part to the left on a plane with the heel of the foot, and I quite often spoke with them there. They were at the time beneath the central area inhabited by the Christian world; but after the Last Judgment they were driven away, and being now far to the left, they live there in certain cities where the streets appear filled with dung and refuse, and where the houses are continually changing owing to the fact that new inhabitants keep coming and going. They are explored there to discover who among them are able to acknowledge the Lord as the Messiah-whom they are still awaiting in the world-and who cannot. Those who can are conveyed to synagogues where they are instructed. [Marginal Note] filth