Romans 6:4

This symbolism interpreted. συνετάφημεν οὖν αὐτῷ κ. τ. λ.: Therefore we were buried with Him (in the act of immersion) through that baptism into His death burial being regarded as the natural sequence of death, and a kind of seal set to its reality. Cf. 1 Corinthians 15:3 f. It introduces a false abstraction to say (with Meyer) that εἰς τὸν θάνατον means “unto death,” not “unto His death”: death in the whole context is perfectly definite. διὰ τῆς δόξης τοῦ πατρός : in nothing was the splendour of God's power revealed so much as in the resurrection of Jesus, Ephesians 1:19 f. ἐν καινότητι ζωῆς : in life of a new quality; cf. Romans 7:6; 1 Timothy 6:17 : the construction makes the new quality of the life prominent. Winer, p. 296.