ACC ~ Romans 6 v3

BAPTIZED INTO HIS DEATH. ORIGEN: Paul is saying by this that if we have died to sin then we must necessarily be buried with Christ in baptism, but … if we have not died to sin, then we cannot be buried with Christ. For nobody is buried while still alive. Then too, anyone who is not buried together with Christ has not been validly baptized. COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

WHETHER BAPTISM IS THE DEATH OF SIN. AMBROSIASTER: Paul says this so that we might know that once we have been baptized we should no longer sin, since when we are baptized we die with Christ. This is what it means to be baptized into his death. For there all our sins die, so that, renewed by the death we have cast off, we might be seen to rise as those who have been born again to new life, so that just as Christ died to sin and rose again, so through baptism we might also have the hope of resurrection. Therefore, baptism is the death of sin so that a new birth might follow, which, although the body remains, nevertheless renews us in our mind and buries all our old evil deeds. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

WHAT BURIAL WAS TO CHRIST, BAPTISM IS TO US. CHRYSOSTOM: What the cross and burial were to Christ, baptism is to us, though not in all respects. For Christ died and was buried in the flesh, whereas we have died and been buried to sin. HOMILIES ON ROMANS 10.

AUGUSTINE: To be baptized into the death of Christ is nothing else but to die to sin, just as he died in the flesh. AGAINST JULIAN 1.7.33.

[PSEUDO-]CONSTANTIUS: Paul teaches this because we are not under the law but under grace, and therefore we should not sin, because we have died to sin in baptism. THE HOLY LETTER OF ST. PAUL TO THE ROMANS.

SEVERIAN: Since we are baptized we confess that we have died to the world and have been buried to sin and the devil. PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH.

THREE BAPTISMS: WATER, THE SPIRIT AND MARTYRDOM. PELAGIUS: Do you not know about this sacrament of baptism? In the Scriptures baptism is received in three ways: with water, with the Holy Spirit (who is also called “fire”) and with blood in martyrdom. We who are believers have died with Christ in our baptism. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

WE CARRY HIS MORTIFICATION IN OUR BODIES. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA: Christ died to sin once, but in that he lives, he lives to God. We have undergone a death like his and have practically been buried together with him. For in that we carry his mortification about in our bodies, we have been buried together with him.EXPLANATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS.

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