Romans 6:4-9
We also should walk in newness of life; for our death with Christ to sin implies our resurrection with Christ to God, which is to us a new life of holiness. See on verses Ro 6:10,11. Planted together; that is, as the original word implies, closely united, namely, with Christ.We shall be also; closely united with Christ. Our dying with Christ to sin, implies our rising with Christ to God. Verses Ro 6:10,11. Our old man; our natural love of sin, and inclination to commit it.Is crucified with him; a repetition of the idea that we die with Christ to sin. The apostle uses the word crucified with reference to the manner of our Lord's death; perhaps also to intimate the lingering and painful nature of the process by which the old man dies, to give place to the new man.The body of sin; the same as "the law of sin which is in my members," chap Ro 7:23, which in the old man controls the body, making it a body of sin and death, chap Ro 7:24. For he that is dead; that is, as the context shows, he that has died to sin. Compare verse Ro 6:18. Dead with Christ; in the sense above explained--one with him in sympathy, desire, and effort as to the object of his death, the deliverance of his people from sin.We believe that we shall also live with him; be like him, through communications received from him, in living to God, even as the branch is like the vine. Joh 14:19; Joh 15:5; Heb 7:25.
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