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Rom 6:3. Ἤ) Or? [‘an,’ Latin. The second part of] a disjunctive interrogation.-ἀγνοεῖτε, know ye not?) The doctrine concerning baptism was known to all. The same form of expression occurs again ch. Rom 7:1. to which the phrase, know ye not? corresponds, Rom 6:16; Rom 11:2 [Wot ye not?] and 1 Cor. throughout. Ignorance is a great obstruction; knowledge is not sufficient.[55]-ὄσοι, whosoever) [as many soever]. No one of the Christians was by that time unbaptized.-ἐβαπτίσθημεν, were baptized) The mentioning of Baptism is extremely well suited to this place; for the adult, being a worthy candidate for Baptism, must have passed through the experience of these things, which the apostle has hitherto been describing. Paul in his more solemn epistles, sent to the churches (Rom. Cor. Gal. Eph. Col.), at the beginning of which he calls himself an apostle, mentions Baptism expressly; in the more familiar (Phil. Thess.) he presupposes it.-εἰς) into. The ground on which we are baptized.-Χριστὸν Ἰησοῦν, Christ Jesus) The name Christ is here put first, because it is more regarded here, Rom 6:4, Gal 3:27.-εἰς τὸν θάνατον αὐτοῦ, into His death) He who is baptized puts on Christ, the second Adam; he is baptized, I say, into a whole Christ, and so also into His death, and it is the same thing as if, at that moment, Christ suffered, died, and was buried for such a man, and as if such a man suffered, died, was buried with Christ.
[55] The point in this sentence is putting officit in antithesis to sufficit, but it cannot be imitated in English-it might be, ignorance is exceedingly officient, knowledge is not sufficient, were officient an English word, which it is not.-TR.