  Understanding the author’s intention is thus seen as a kind of prophecy (“whether I prophesy the intention…”). Kaspi’s interpretative truth, he insists, is concerned not with the author and his intention, but with the reader and his or her understanding: The commentator can speak for himself alone. Such exegesis is subjective, dependent on each of the work’s innumerable readers. Nevertheless, Kaspi is sometimes fairly certain of the author’s meaning: