Romans 6:5

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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.

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Cyril of Alexandria

AD 444

Emmanuel gave up his soul for us; he died in the flesh. We also were buried together with him when we were baptized. Does this mean that our flesh died in the same way as his did? Hardly. Come, let me explain in what sense we were buried with him in a death like his. Christ died in the flesh in order to remove the sin of the world, but we do not die to the flesh so much as to guilt, as it is written. Thus now we have to break down the power of sin within us by mortifying our earthly members…. As we have died a death like his, so we shall also be conformed to his resurrection, because we shall live in Christ. It is true that the flesh will come to life again, but still we shall live in another way, by dedicating our souls to him and by being transformed into holiness and a kind of glorious life in the Holy Spirit. .

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Diodorus of Tarsus

AD 390

Those who have been validly baptized into Christ’s death have been united to him by faith. .

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Gennadius of Constantinople

AD 471

Christ’s baptism in the Jordan was a type of the mystery of his resurrection. .

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John Chrysostom

AD 407

Paul says that there are two mortifyings and two deaths. One of them is accomplished by Christ in baptism, and the other it is our duty to effect by earnestness afterwards. For it was Christ’s gift that our former sins were buried, but remaining dead to sin after baptism must be the work of our own earnestness, however much we find that God gives us enormous help here as well. For baptism does not just have the power to obliterate our former transgressions; it also protects us against subsequent ones.

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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.

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Oecumenius

AD 990

See the goodness of God. We have died Christ’s death metaphorically, but we shall share his resurrection truly. .

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Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220

We die figuratively in our baptism, but we shall rise again in reality in our flesh, even as Christ did.

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The Apostolic Constitutions

AD 375

Y man according to the good pleasure of His kindness, that He might inspire him with the knowledge of His will, and enlighten the eyes of his heart to consider of His wonderful works, and make known to him the judgments of righteousness, that so he might hate every way of iniquity, and walk in the way of truth, that he might be thought worthy of the layer of regeneration, to the adoption of sons, which is in Christ, that "being planted together in the likeness of the death of Christ"

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