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5. γὰρ expresses what was implied in καὶ ἡμεῖς, we are risen as Christ rose: this argument is continued to Rom 6:11.
σύμφυτοι, here only N.T. Cf. ἔμφυτος, Jam 1:21. = if we have been born (γεγόναμεν) with a (new) nature characterised by or wearing the likeness of His death. The new nature is stamped with the likeness to Christ’s death, as a death to sin; the idea is expanded in Rom 6:6. συμφ. = ‘of one growth or nature with.’ γεγόναμεν, cf. Rom 16:7, Rom 1:3; Jam 3:9. ὁμοίωμα, cf. Rom 8:3, Php 2:7, implies true assimilation, but of things different. There is that in the Death of Christ which transcends the capacity of men, yet the life of the redeemed man is truly assimilated, in its degree, to that Death. R.V. supplies αὐτῷ and takes τῷ ὁμ. as instrumental; possible but not quite natural.
ἀλλὰ καὶ κ.τ.λ. =ἀλλὰ καὶ σύμφυτοι τῷ ὁμ. τῆς ἀν. ἐσόμεθα: explained by συνζήσομεν, Rom 6:8 and ζῶντας, Rom 6:11. The stamp of the risen Life of the Lord will also be shown in this new life—as a ‘life to GOD,’ and therefore not under sin. ἐσόμεθα is a logical future: it follows that our lives will show etc.