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Know ye not (ἀγνοεῖτε)
The expression is stronger: are ye ignorant. So Rev. The indicative mood presupposes an acquaintance with the moral nature of baptism, and a consequent absurdity in the idea of persisting in sin.
So many as (ὅσοι)
Rev., all we who. Put differently from we that (οἵτινες, Rom 6:2) as not characterizing but designating all collectively.
Baptized into (εἶς)
See on Mat 28:19. The preposition. denotes inward union, participation; not in order to bring about the union, for that has been effected. Compare 1Co 12:12, 1Co 12:13, 1Co 12:27.
Into His death
As He died to sin, so we die to sin, just as if we were literally members of His body. Godet gives an anecdote related by a missionary who was questioning a converted Bechuana on Col 3:3. The convert said: “Soon I shall be dead, and they will bury me in my field. My flocks will come to pasture above me. But I shall no longer hear them, and I shall not come forth from my tomb to take them and carry them with me to the sepulchre. They will be strange to me, as I to them. Such is the image of my life in the midst of the world since I believed in Christ.”