visionaries [Schwärmer]. To be sure, even the critically reflective historian recognizes[15] that this book is concerned with unique and extraordinarily profound things, that here one catches sight of things of enormous significance. But if one did not, one would truly be an unsound historian, just as unsound a historian as if one believed that one could use such statements to prove that the Bible is God’s word. One begins to see (recall Dibelius)[16] that a certain final principle lies behind the