Quotes from Geerhardus Vos

Who at the present time thinks of Easter as intended and adapted to fill the soul with a new jubilant assurance of the forgiveness of sin as the guarantee of the inheritance of eternal life?

The resurrection constitutes, as it were, the womb of the new aeon, out of which believers issue as, in a new, altogether unprecedented, sense, sons of God: "They are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection," therefore they neither marry, nor are given in marriage (Lk. xx. 35-36).

And every philosophy of history bears in itself the seed of a theology.

all eschatological interpretation of history, when united to a strong religious mentality cannot but produce the finest practical theological fruitage.

Aion" may mean "age" in the New Testament and it may mean "world.

There are in the Pauline teaching four important structural lines and in connection with these it will prove easiest and most convincing to test our thesis. These consist of the idea of the resurrection, the thought of salvation, the doctrine of the judgment and justification, the conception of the Spirit.

He who is united to Christ and lives within the circle of his love, to him the eternal retention of the supreme eschatological life is absolutely secure.

we are not received by Jesus into a school of ethics but into a kingdom of redemption.

Whether one says: the body of humiliation is transformed into a body of glory, or says, the corruptible puts on incorruption, the mortal immortality, makes no difference whatever as to the principle of continuity.

The Man-of-Sin is the irreligious and anti-religious and anti-Messianic subject par excellence.

there is something about these expectations and visions of the last things, that will send them into the light and focus of the consciousness of believers, whenever storms of persecution arise and hard distresses invade.

there is already wrapped up a judging-process, at least for believers: the raising act in their case, together with the attending change, plainly involves a pronouncement of vindication.