ACC ~ John 19 v42

BURIED WITH CHRIST IN BAPTISM

ORIGEN: Surely if no one had as yet been laid there, men and women were afterward laid there. For this is the meaning for those who consider carefully. … He who said, “We have been buried with Christ through baptism and have risen with him,” [1] has himself been after Christ buried together with Christ in a new and spiritual tomb hewn in the rock. It is the same for all who have been buried together with Christ in baptism so that they may rise with him from the new tomb of the Firstborn from the dead who holds the preeminence in all things. COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW 143. [2]

[1] Rom 6:4.

[2] AEG 6:101*; GCS 38 2 (11):296-97.