Romans 6:2

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God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer in it?

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Ambrosiaster

AD 400

To sin is to live to sin, and not to sin is to live to God. Therefore, when the grace of God through Christ and through faith came upon us, we began by the spiritual rebirth of baptism to live to God, and we died to sin, which is the devil. This is what dying to sin means: to be set free from sin and to become a servant of God. Therefore, having died to sin, let us not go back to our earlier evils, lest by living once again to sin and dying to God we should incur the penalty from which we have escaped. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.

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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430

Nothing shorter or better could be said. For what more useful gift does the grace of God confer on us than to make us die to sin? Letter

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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430

Here Paul makes the point that past sins have been forgiven and that in this pardon grace so superabounded that earlier sins were remitted as well. Thus whoever tries to increase sin in order to feel an increase of grace does not understand that he is behaving in such a way that grace can do nothing in him. For the work of grace is that we should die to sin.

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Clement Of Alexandria

AD 215

Similiter etiam scribit Paulus in Epistola ad Romanos: "Quimortui sumus peccato, quomodo adhuc rive runs in ipso? Quoniam veins homo nosier simul est crucifixus, ut destruatur corpus peccati"

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Gennadius of Constantinople

AD 471

Carnal people and unbelievers may live like this, but we are totally incapable of it because we have a new life, having died to sin once for all. .

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Dead to sin We are then dead to sin when we neither live in sin by serving it, nor sin lives in us by reigning; in this case, how can we still live in it by yielding to its desires? St. Augustine (chap. vi. de spiritu et litera) thus explains the passage: when grace has caused us to die to sin; if we live again in it, we must be exceedingly ungrateful to grace. (Estius)

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John Chrysostom

AD 407

Being dead to sin means not obeying it any more. Baptism has made us dead to sin once and for all, but we must strive to maintain this state of affairs, so that however many commands sin may give us, we no longer obey it but remain unmoved by it, as a corpse does. Elsewhere, Paul even says that sin itself is dead … in order to show that virtue is easy. But here, since he is trying to rouse his hearers to action, he says that they are the ones who are dead.

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