Quotes from Geerhardus Vos

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

The Spirit's work in the renewal of things proceeds according to a fixed, systematic method, in certain distinct stages.

For to Paul the chief actor in this drama had come upon the scene; the Messiah had been made present, and could not but be looked upon as henceforth the dominating figure in all further developments.

This life is first hid with Christ, because it is a disembodied life; at the last day it will become manifest through union with the eschatological body.

What is envisaged is a point or stretch lying at the end of history; it forms part of what are called "days"; that thereafter there shall be no more days, but something of a different nature is not implied.

The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide to contemplative prayer. "Be willing to be blind, and give up all longing to know the why and how, for knowing will be more of a hindrance than a help." This 1912 edition was edited by Evelyn Underhill, and contains her introduction.

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

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).

The first resurrection, then, takes place at the parousia, the second when Christ abdicates his kingdom.

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.

Heaven, so to speak, has received time and history into itself, no less than time has received unchangeableness and eternity into itself.

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