Pauline Eschatology Quotes

“All temporal, partial experience of God inevitably leaves a sense of dissatisfaction behind.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology

“The heaven in which the Christian by anticipation dwells is not the cosmical heaven, it is a thoroughly redemptive heaven, a heaven become what it is through the progressive upbuilding and enrichment pertaining to the age-long work of God in the sphere of redemption.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology

“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.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology

“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.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology

“Redemption reconstructs the relation of man to God.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology

“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.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology

“The first resurrection, then, takes place at the parousia, the second when Christ abdicates his kingdom.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology

“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.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology

“The Spirit’s work in the renewal of things proceeds according to a fixed, systematic method, in certain distinct stages.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology

“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.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology

“We have found that the Spirit is both the instrumental cause of the resurrection-act and the permanent substratum of the resurrection-life.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology

“the Spirit appears as the source of the future new life of Israel, especially of the ethico-religious renewal, and thus first becomes suggestive of the eschatological state itself.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology

“In order to perceive this the reader should endeavor to make clear to himself how intimate a connection there exists between the Holy Spirit and Eschatology.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology

“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).”
― Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology

“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?”
― Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology

“the swallowing up of death in victory, and death is here pointedly named as the penalty for sin imposed by the Law, so that the resurrection is the final removal of the condemnation of sin.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology

“The Man-of-Sin is the irreligious and anti-religious and anti-Messianic subject par excellence.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology

“The underlying idea is none other than that the times preceding the parousia require a unique concentration of the minds of believers upon the Lord and the manner in which they may best please Him.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology

“all eschatological interpretation of history, when united to a strong religious mentality cannot but produce the finest practical theological fruitage.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology

“And every philosophy of history bears in itself the seed of a theology.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology

“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.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology

“Heaven, so to speak, has received time and history into itself, no less than time has received unchangeableness and eternity into itself.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology

“We hope presently to show that, as a matter of fact, not only the Christology but also the Soteriology of the Apostle’s teaching is so closely interwoven with the Eschatology, that, were the question put, which of the strands is more central, which more peripheral, the eschatology would have as good a claim to the central place as the others.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology

“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.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology

“Aion” may mean “age” in the New Testament and it may mean “world.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology

“In the period of the Reformation the problem of the obtaining of righteousness before God filled hearts and minds.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology

“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.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Pauline Eschatology