Reflections on Lessing's Fragments

sell [them], and carry on as much charlatanry original: "Markschreierey." This refers to the boisterous, deceptive advertising used by quacks at a marketplace. with their learned wares as was hardly ever done by the priests original: "Sacerdoten." From the Latin sacerdos. among the nations under natural religion Natural religion refers to a system of belief based on human reason and the study of nature rather than on divine revelation or scripture., with their supposed sanctuaries and hidden hieroglyphs In this context, "hieroglyphs" refers to cryptic or encoded symbols used by ancient priesthoods to keep knowledge hidden from the common people..

Regarding the author of the Letters on the Bible in a Popular Tone This likely refers to Karl Friedrich Bahrdt (1741–1792), a radical Enlightenment figure who wrote controversial, simplified critiques of the Bible that many contemporary scholars found "vulgar" or "pöbelhaft.", I am likely not mistaken if I take him for the one who has already distinguished himself in his birthplace through a base and vulgar conduct, unbecoming of a true scholar. Since he has also written his work in a vulgar tone, I will not engage with him at all; for he and all his base comrades will receive their dismissal original: "Abfertigung." This carries the dual meaning of a "final rebuttal" and a "dispatching" of their arguments. through the dismissal of the others.