Dans la célèbre parabole des trois anneaux de Lessing, Nathan le Sage raconte l’histoire d’une querelle entre trois frères.
In Lessing’s famous parable of the rings, Nathan the Wise tells the story of a dispute between three brothers as to who is the rightful inheritor of their father’s ring, and hence of religious truth, and the status as heir manifests itself only through good deeds, in which the brothers are to strive to outdo one another.