subject, which went beyond what they wrote.”25 To this Elliott Johnson responds, asking what happens when the temporal referent itself is the meaning of the prophecy as, for example, in Dan 9:24–27. He says, “It seems clear that Daniel was ignorant of the date of ‘the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem,’ even though he wrote about it. So it must be that Daniel wrote more than he understood.”26 What makes this matter more complicated is that meaning is something of a catch-all for several components,