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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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Paul did not say “in death” but “in a death like his.” For both the first and the second are death but not the death of the same thing. The first is the death of the body, the second is the death of sin.