Lessing admits that someone might object that miracles like the resurrection of Jesus from the dead are “more than historically certain” because these things are told to us by “inspired historians who cannot make a mistake.” But Lessing counters that whether or not we have inspired historians is itself a historical claim, which is only as certain as history allows. This, then, according to Lessing, “is the ugly broad ditch which I cannot get across, however often and however earnestly I have tried to make the leap. . . . Since
