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4. συνετάφημεν. Col 2:12 only; cf. 1Co 15:4; Act 13:29. It is remarkable that S. Paul, alone in N.T. outside the Gospels, lays stress on the Burial: he alone was not an eyewitness of the circumstances of the Death, and therefore for him the burial was of high significance, in its evidential value.
εἰς τ. θ. Closely with τοῦ β.—through that baptism into His Death.
ἵνα. The purpose of this sharing the death and burial is negative as regards the old life of sin, but positive also, that we might enter into the atmosphere of the new life and walk in it.
δοὰ τῆς δόξης τοῦ πατρός, here δόξα is used of the manifest action of the Father in the raising of Christ; διὰ, instrum.; cf. Joh 11:40, Col 1:11. The resurrection of Christ is a revelation of the Father.
τοῦ πατρός. Cf. Joh 5:21; Act 1:4; Act 1:7; Act 2:33 (only in A); Eph 2:18; Eph 3:14; Col 1:12 (?); 1Pe 1:17; 1Jn 1:2-3; 1Jn 2:1; 1Jn 2:15 alibi (7); 2 Joh. (3); Rev. (4).
The use of ὁ πατήρ absolutely is dominantly characteristic of S. John (but cf. also Mat 11:25 f. |[144] Luk 24:36 |[145]; Mat 28:19). It occurs in S. Paul and Acts only as above (but n. Gal 4:6). This is the only place where it is used alone in connexion with the resurrection; and consequently it calls marked attention to the character of the resurrection as an act not of power only but of the love of the Father to His Son, and through the Son to those that are His. This thought emphasises the obligations of the new life which has its ultimate source in that love.
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οὕτως therefore covers the whole thought of the ὥσπερ clause: as in rising Christ left all that was dead behind, as that rising was due to the Father’s love and power, as we share that rising, so we must leave our dead selves behind and walk etc.
ζωή is the principle of life, not the manner of life (cf. Gifford and see Lft, Igna. Romans 7); the fresh vigour of a new principle of life (cf. Rom 8:2) is the motive power of Christian conduct (περιπατήσωμεν). This is the answer to Rom 6:1.