(or the Scriptures) as leading up to Christ are all patterned after Christ as the archetype. Thus, although chronologically many historical types may precede the Christ event, ontologically Christ precedes them and is their origin (ἀρχή). He is, as it were, the providential master plan on which all of history is patterned. As George Westhaver puts it: “That which most fulfils the meaning of the types of the Old Testament, and which is also the fundamental reality of which they are copies or images,