JETS 38:4 (December 1995) p. 488 not change his meaning-intention but rather instantiate and fulfill it. It is the nature of textual meaning to embrace many different future fulfillments without thereby being changes. 34 Hirsch limits this extension of meaning as follows: “In my account, the identity of meaning in different applications is preserved only when the application is an instance subsumed by the original intention-concept.” 35 Hirsch states later that “when older texts have broad meanings,