Quotes from Herman Ridderbos

The coming of the kingdom brings deliverance, not only for the soul, but also for the body. It embraces nothing less than the re-creation of heaven and earth.

Faith does not justify because of that which it is in itself, but because of that to which it is directed, in which it rests.

The gospel is a power of God unto salvation, because therein the righteousness of God is revealed (Rom. 1: 16ft).

For the commentator to stay as closely as possible to home, that is, to the text of the Gospel itself, there is much to be said in favor of the practice, followed by Bultmann in his famous commentary, of plunging immediately — without the typical introduction — into the text and dealing with disputed issues ad hoc, that is where particular passages occasion such discussion.

the object of God's justification, from whatever viewpoint one chooses to regard it, is not the righteous, but the ungodly.

Cosmos is the world turned away from God, rebellious and hostile toward him (cf. Rom. 3:16, 19; 2 Cor. 5:19), depraved mankind that is headed for judgment (Rom. 3: 6; 1 Cor. 11: 32). As such believers are redeemed from the present evil aeon (Gal. 1: 4), the cosmos has been crucified for them and they for the cosmos (Gal. 6: 14), they are considered as no longer living in the cosmos (Col. 2: 20), and they must not let themselves be conformed to this aeon (Rom. 12: 2).