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Or don`t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
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Baptism's Core Meaning
Commentators unanimously explain that being 'baptized into Christ Jesus' is fundamentally about being united with Him in His death. This isn't just a ritual with water; it's a profound symbol and public declaration of our identification with Christ's death to sin. As several scholars note, this union signifies the end of our old life and our consecration to Him.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Know ye not. This is a further appeal to the Christian profession and the principles involved in it, in answer to the objection. The simpl…
Were baptized into Christ (εβαπτισθημεν εις Χριστον). First aorist passive indicative of βαπτιζω. Better, "were baptized unto Chri…
19th Century
Anglican
Do you not know?—It should be, as in the Greek, Or do you not know? Do you not admit this principle; or am I to suppose t…
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Baptist
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Was not that the real meaning of ou…
The explanation of how this death to sin occurred follows immediately (vv.3–4): by being “baptized into Christ Jesus.” What is being described is a…
16th Century
Protestant
Know ye not, etc. What he intimated in the last verse—that Christ destroys sin in his people—he proves here by mentioning the eff…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Know you not that so many of us as , etc.] You must know this, you cannot be ignorant of it, that whoever
were b…
Baptism teaches the necessity of dying to sin, and being, so to speak, buried from all ungodly and unholy pursuits, and of rising to walk with God …
13th Century
Catholic
After showing that it is through Christ’s grace that we are freed from the sin of our first parent and from the sin that abounded because…
