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Therefore: q.d. Because we are thus dead with Christ, therefore, & c.
We are buried with him; i.e. we have communion with him in his burial also, which represents a farther degree of the destruction of sin, by putting it, as it were, out of our sight, Gen_23:4, and having no more to do with it.
By baptism into death: he seems here to allude to the manner of baptizing in those warm Eastern countries, which was to dip or plunge the party baptized, and as it were to bury him for a while under water. See the like phrase, Col_2:12. Baptism doth not only represent our mortification and death to sin, but our progress and perseverance therein. Burial implies a continuing under death; so is mortification a continual dying unto sin.
That like as Christ was raised up from the dead; look as, after the death and burial of Christ, there followed his resurrection, so it must be with us; we must have communion with, and conformity to, the Lord Jesus Christ in his resurrection as well as in his death; both these are represented and sealed to us by the sacrament of baptism.
By the glory of the Father; i.e. by the power of the Father, which is called, Col_1:11, his glorious power. God is said elsewhere to have raised him by his power, 1Co_6:14; and in 2Co_13:4, he is said to live by the power of God. Some read it thus, he was raised from the dead, to the glory of the Father.
The preposition dia is sometimes rendered to: see 1Pe_1:3.
Walk in newness of life; i.e. live a new life, being actuated by new principles, aiming at new ends, and bringing forth new fruits of holiness: see Rom_7:6.