Most Christians know that the New Testament quotes the Old Testament. Far fewer realise that it thinks in the Old Testament.

The words, images, titles, feasts, promises, symbols, and hopes of the New Testament are drawn from the world of Israel’s Scriptures. Christ does not abolish that world. He opens it.

The Pattern Fulfilled traces the figures, institutions, kingdom, sacraments, Marian patterns, ecclesial images, and final hopes of the Old Testament as they come to fulfilment in Christ. Adam, Isaac, Joseph, Moses, David, Jonah, the Temple, priesthood, Passover, manna, water, the keys, the Twelve, Mary, the Church, the New Exodus, the New Creation, and Revelation are not isolated themes. They are threads in one divine economy.

This book is an invitation to read Scripture as Christ taught His disciples to read it on the road to Emmaus: promise and fulfilment, shadow and reality, suffering and glory, Old Testament and New, all brought to their centre in Him

The Old Testament unlocks the New because Christ unlocks both.