Romans 6:4

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. THEREFORE WE ARE BURIED WITH HIM, [ sunetafeemen (G4916)] - rather, 'we were buried with Him;' for the thing is viewed as a past act, done and completed at once on their reception of the Gospel, and baptismally sealed on their profession of it, BY BAPTISM INTO DEATH. It is thus that this and the preceding clauses must be separated, to make the sense clear. It is not, 'by baptism we are buried with Him into death,' which makes no sense at all; but 'by baptism with Him into death we are buried with Him;' in other words, 'by the same baptism which publicly enters us into His death, we are made partakers of His burial also.' To leave a dead body unburied...

4._We have then been buried with him, etc. _He now begins to indicate the object of our having been baptized into the death of Christ, though he does not yet completely unfold it; and the object is — that we, being dead to ourselves, may become new creatures. He rightly makes a transition from a fellowship in death to a fellowship in life; for these two things are connected together by an indissoluble knot — that the old man is destroyed by the death of Christ, and that his resurrection brings righteousness, and renders us new creatures. And surely, since Christ has been given to us for life, to what purpose is it that we die with him except that we may rise to a better life? And hence for no other reason does he slay what is mortal in us, but that he may give us life again. Let us know, that the Apostle does not simply exhort us to imitate Christ, as though he had said that the death of...

3-10 Baptism teaches the necessity of dying to sin, and being as it were buried from all ungodly and unholy pursuits, and of rising to walk with God in newness of life. Unholy professors may have had the outward sign of a death unto sin, and a new birth unto righteousness, but they never passed from the family of Satan to that of God. The corrupt nature, called the old man, because derived from our first father Adam, is crucified with Christ, in every true believer, by the grace derived from the cross. It is weakened and in a dying state, though it yet struggles for life, and even for victory. But the whole body of sin, whatever is not according to the holy law of God, must be done away, so that the believer may no more be the slave of sin, but live to God, and find happiness in his service....

Verse Romans 6:4. _WE ARE BURIED WITH HIM BY BAPTISM INTO DEATH_] It is _probable_ that the apostle here alludes to the mode of administering baptism by _immersion_, the whole body being put _under_ _the water_, which seemed to say, the man is _drowned_, is _dead_; and, when he came up out of the water, he seemed to have a _resurrection_ to life; _the man is risen again; he is alive_! He was, therefore, supposed to throw off his old _Gentile_ state as he threw off his clothes, and to assume a new character, as the baptized generally put on new or fresh garments. I say it is _probable_ that the apostle alludes to this mode of immersion; but it is not absolutely _certain_ that he does so, as some do imagine; for, in the next verse, our being incorporated into Christ by _baptism_ is also denoted by our being _planted_, or rather...

THEREFORE WE ARE BURIED ... - It is altogether probable that the apostle in this place had allusion to the custom of baptizing by immersion. This cannot, indeed, be proved, so as to be liable to no objection; but I presume that this is the idea which would strike the great mass of unprejudiced readers. But while this is admitted, it is also certain that his main scope and intention was not to describe the mode of baptism; nor to affirm that that mode was to be universal. The design was very different. It was to show that by the solemn profession made at our baptism, we had become dead to sin, as Christ was dead to the living world around him when he was buried; and that as he was raised up to life, so we should also rise to a new life. A similar expression occurs in Colossians 2:12, “Buried with him in baptism,” etc. See the Editors’ Notes at...

EXPOSITION ROMANS 8:1 (7) _Moral results to true believers of the revelation to them of the righteousness of God. _The _righteousness of God_ having been announced as revealed in the gospel (Romans 1:17), set forth as available for all mankind (Romans 3:21), shown to be in accordance with the teaching of the Old Testament (Romans 4:1), viewed with regard to the feelings and hopes of believers fell Romans 5:1) and to the position of the human race before God ...

THEREFORE WE ARE BURIED WITH HIM BY BAPTISM INTO DEATH,.... The nature and end of baptism are here expressed; the nature of it, it is a "burial"; and when the apostle so calls it, he manifestly refers to the ancient and only way of administering this ordinance, by immersion; when a person is covered, and as it were buried in water, as a corpse is when laid the earth, and covered with it: and it is a burial with Christ; it is a representation of the burial of Christ, and of our burial with him as our head and representative, and that "into death"; meaning either the death of Christ as before, that is, so as to partake of the benefits of his death; or the death of sin, of which baptism is also a token; for believers, whilst under water, are as persons buried, and so dead; which signifies not only their being dead with Christ, and their communion with him in his death, but also their being...

Paul finishes the last chapter by saying, «That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.» «What shall we say, then?» What inference shall we draw from the super-abounding of grace over sin? Romans 6:1. _What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?_ «Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?» That were very horrible inference. It is one great instance of the shocking depravity of man that the inference has been drawn sometimes, I hope not often, for surely Satan himself might scarcely draw an inference of licentiousness from love. Still, some have drawn it. Romans 6:2. _God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?_ Now, he

ROMANS 6:4 ou=n {A} Uncertain of the appropriateness of ou=n in relating ver. Romans 6:4 to ver. Romans 6:3, the Peshitta Syriac version and other witnesses omit the connective, while the Old Latin versions, joined by Origen, substitute ga,r....

CHAPTER 6 _ 1. Dead with Christ to Sin. (Romans 6:1 .)_ 2. Risen with Christ and Alive to God. (Romans 6:8 .) 3. Sin shall Not Have Dominion. (Romans 6:12 .) 4. Servants to Righteousness. (Romans 6:15 .) Romans 6:1 We have learned from the previous chapter that the justified believer is in Christ and fully identified with Him. God sees the believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, no longer in Adam, but in Christ, the head of a new creation. “So if any one be in Christ, it is a new creation the old things have passed away, behold a