Quotes & Notes on:
Romans 6:3
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John Wesley's Notes:
In baptism we, through faith, are ingrafted into Christ; and we
draw new spiritual life from this new root, through his Spirit, who
fashions us like unto him, and particularly with regard to his death and
resurrection.
- Treasury of Scripture Knowledge:
* Know. Ro 6:16; 7:1; 1Co 3:16; 5:6; 6:2,3,9,15,16; 9:13,24; 2Co 13:5;
Jas 4:4
* as were. or, as are. Mt 28:19; 1Co 12:13; Ga 3:27; 1Pe 3:21
* were. Ro 6:4,5,8; 1Co 15:29; Ga 2:20,21
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Adam Clarke's Commentary:
Know ye not, &c.] Every man who believes the Christian religion, and
receives baptism as the proof that he believes it, and has taken up the
profession of it, is bound thereby to a life of righteousness. To be
baptized into Christ, is to receive the doctrine of Christ crucified,
and to receive baptism as a proof of the genuineness of that faith, and
the obligation to live according to its precepts.
Baptized into his death?] That, as Jesus Christ in his crucifixion died
completely, so that no spark of the natural or animal life remained in
his body, so those who profess his religion should be so completely
separated and saved from sin, that they have no more connection with it,
nor any more influence from it, than a dead man has with or from his
departed spirit.
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Family Bible Notes:
Were baptized into his death; were so united with him as to be the
followers of him in his death by dying to sin as he did. See this idea
more fully stated in verses Ro 6:10,11. True Christians will never make
the fact that they are saved by grace and not by works, nor the fact
that the greater and more numerous their sins the more abounding the
grace which saves them, an occasion or excuse for continuing in sin.
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1599 Geneva Bible Notes:
There are three parts of this sanctification: that is,
the death of the old man or sin, his burial, and the resurrection of the
new man, descending into us from the virtue of the death, burial, and
resurrection of Christ, of which benefit our baptism is a sign and
pledge. (c) To the end that growing up as one with him, we should
receive his strength to extinguish sin in us, and to make us new men.
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People's New Testament Commentary:
So many of us as were baptized into Christ, etc. The fact that
every follower of Christ has died to sin is shown by his baptism. All
its symbolism points to death. To be baptized into Christ means to enter
into a vital union with him, so as to be found in him (Ga 3:27). But
this baptism into Christ implies death, for it is a baptism into the
death of Christ. That the subjects of baptism are partakers of his death
is shown by the form of baptism. It is a burial.
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Robertson's Word Pictures:
Were baptized into Christ (ebaptisthêmen eis Christon). First
aorist passive indicative of baptizô. Better, "were baptized unto Christ
or in Christ." The translation "into" makes Paul say that the union with
Christ was brought to pass by means of baptism, which is not his idea,
for Paul was not a sacramentarian. Eis is at bottom the same word as en.
Baptism is the public proclamation of one's inward spiritual relation to
Christ attained before the baptism. See on "Ga 3:27" where it is like
putting on an outward garment or uniform. Into his death (eis ton
thanaton autou). So here "unto his death," "in relation to his death,"
which relation Paul proceeds to explain by the symbolism of the
ordinance.
Albert Barnes' Commentary:
Know ye not. This is a further appeal to the Christian profession, and
the principles involved in it, in answer to the objection. The simple
argument in this verse and the two following is, that by our very
profession made in baptism we have renounced sin, and have pledged
ourselves to live to God.
So many of us, etc. All who were baptized; i.e. all professing
Christians. As this renunciation of sin had been thus made by all who
professed religion, so the objection could not have reference to
Christianity in any manner.
Were baptized. The act of baptism denotes dedication to the service of
him in whose name we are baptized. One of its designs is to dedicate or
consecrate us to the service of Christ. Thus (1Co 10:2) the Israelites
are said to have been "baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;"
i.e. they became consecrated, Or dedicated, or bound to him as their
leader and lawgiver. In the place before us, the argument of the apostle
is evidently draw from the supposition that we have been solemnly
consecrated by baptism to the service of Christ; and that to sin is
therefore a violation of the very nature of our Christian profession.
Into. (eiv). This is the word which is used in Mt 28:19, "Teach all
nations, baptizing them into (eiv) the name of the Father," etc. It
means, being baptized unto his service; receiving him as the Saviour and
Guide, devoting all unto him and his cause.
Were baptized into his death. We were baptized with special reference to
his death. Our baptism had a strong resemblance to his death. By that he
became insensible to the things of the world; by baptism we in like
manner become dead to sin. Farther, we are baptized with particular
reference to the design of his death, the great leading feature and
purpose of his work. That was to expiate sin; to free men from its
power; to make them pure. We have professed our devotion to the same
cause; and have solemnly consecrated ourselves to the same design--to
put a period to the dominion of iniquity.
{1} "were baptized", or "are baptized"
{h} "into his death" 1Co 15:29
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Jamieson-Faussett Brown:
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus
Christ--compare 1Co 10:2.
were baptized into his death?--sealed with the seal of heaven, and as it
were formally entered and articled, to all the benefits and all the
obligations of Christian discipleship in general, and of His death in
particular. And since He was "made sin" and "a curse for us" (2Co 5:21;
Ga 5:13), "bearing our sins in His own body on the tree," and "rising
again for our justification" (Ro 4:25; 1Pe 2:24), our whole sinful case
and condition, thus taken up into His Person, has been brought to an end
in His death. Whoso, then, has been baptized into Christ's death has
formally surrendered the whole state and life of sin, as in Christ a
dead thing. He has sealed himself to be not only "the righteousness of
God in Him," but "a new creature"; and as he cannot be in Christ to the
one effect and not to the other, for they are one thing, he has bidden
farewell, by baptism into Christ's death, to his entire connection with
sin. "How," then, "can he live any longer therein?" The two things are
as contradictory in the fact as they are in the terms.
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Spurgeon Commentary:
(No comment on this verse).
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William Burkitt's Notes:
To be baptized into Christ, is by baptism to take the name of
Christ upon us, to be incorporated, ingrafted, and implanted into the
church of Christ, being made visible members of his mystical body by
baptism. To be baptized into Christ's death, imports, our being
conformed to him in the likeness of his death; our being engaged to die
unto sin; as Christ died for sin.
Learn hence, That the death of Christ was a lively representation of the
death of sin; and believers are to imitate his death, in their dying
daily unto sin.
Did Christ die for us a painful, shameful, and accursed death? such a
death must sin die in us. Was his death for sin free and voluntary?
so must we die to sin.
Was his death an universal crucifixion, did no life, sense, or motion
remain with him?
thus must we imitate the likeness of his death, by an universal
mortification of every known sin, which occasioned his dying.
In a word, did Christ die and rise again, never to die more?
so must we die unto sin, and walk in newness of life.
How shall we that are dead unto sin, live any longer therein?
Thus it appears the indispensible duty of all Christians, to transcribe
the copy of Christ's death in their hearts and lives.
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary:
Baptism teaches the necessity of dying to sin, and being as it were
buried from all ungodly and unholy pursuits, and of rising to walk with
God in newness of life. Unholy professors may have had the outward sign
of a death unto sin, and a new birth unto righteousness, but they never
passed from the family of Satan to that of God. The corrupt nature,
called the old man, because derived from our first father Adam, is
crucified with Christ, in every true believer, by the grace derived from
the cross. It is weakened and in a dying state, though it yet struggles
for life, and even for victory. But the whole body of sin, whatever is
not according to the holy law of God, must be done away, so that the
believer may no more be the slave of sin, but live to God, and find
happiness in his service.
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The Fourfold Gospel:
(No comment on this verse).
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