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