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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Romans 6:6 - 6:6
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Knowing this, etc. - The apostle now grows more definite and vivid in expressing the sin-destroying efficacy of our union with the crucified Savior.
that our old man - “our old selves”; that is, “all that we were in our old unregenerate condition, before union with Christ” (compare Col 3:9, Col 3:10; Eph 4:22-24; Gal 2:20; Gal 5:24; Gal 6:14).
is - rather, “was.”
crucified with him - in order.
that the body of sin - not a figure for “the mass of sin”; nor the “material body,” considered as the seat of sin, which it is not; but (as we judge) for “sin as it dwells in us in our present embodied state, under the law of the fall.”
might be destroyed - (in Christ’s death) - to the end.
that henceforth we should not serve sin - “be in bondage to sin.”