For if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
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Ambrosiaster
AD 400
Happily Paul says that we can rise again if we have been united with Christ in the likeness of his death, i.e., if we have laid aside all our wickedness in baptism and, having been transferred into a new life, no longer sin. In this way we shall be like him in his resurrection, because the likeness of his death presupposes a similar resurrection…. The likeness does not mean that there will be no difference at all between us, of course. We will be like him in the glory of his body, not in the nature of his divinity. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.
