Romans 6:3

ἤ�, Romans 7:1 only; cf. οὐ θέλω ὑ. ἀγνοεῖν Romans 1:13; Romans 11:25; 1 Corinthians 10:1; 1 Corinthians 12:1 alibi; as always, appealing to an admitted principle of Christian instruction.

It has been suggested that here and in 1 Corinthians 15:4 we have a reference to a primitive Baptismal Confession of the Death, Burial and Resurrection. See Clemen Erklärung, p. 172.

ἐβαπτίσθημεν, only Evv., Acts and Paul. With εἰς Χρ. only here and Galatians 3:27 : = were brought by baptism into union with Christ: this community of life is the fundamental thought of the passage, as determining the natural and necessary character of the Christian life.

εἰς Χρ. Ἰης. The union is with the full life of the Son as seen both in His Humanity and in His ascended state.

εἰς τὸν θάνατον αὐ.: the first stage of the Christian life is death, a death, in its kind, of the same quality as the death of Jesus (cf. 2 Corinthians 4:10), i.e. a death to sin, cf. Romans 6:10.