ever ) [as many soever]. No one of the Christians was by that time unbaptized. — i/3a«rr/<r0fy uev, 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. — s }g) into. The ground on which we are baptized. — Xpmrbv ’iqffovv, Christ Jesus) The name Christ is here put first, because it is more regarded here, ver. 4, Gal. iii. 27. — ilg r'ov ■ 6 a vurov avrou , 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.
4. hvvsrdtpripev, we were buried with Him) The fruits of the burial of Christ. Immersion in baptism, or at least the sprink- ling of water upon the person, represents burial, burial is a confirmation of [facit ratam] death. — s/g, into) Construed with baptism , with which comp. ver. 3. — utKep — ovrca, as — so) An abbreviated expression for,1 As Christ ivas raised from the dead by the glory of the Father , so we should also rise, and as Christ reigns for ever in the glory of the Father, and in that life to which He has risen, so we also should walk in newness of life. — d/a, by) By concerning the Father is also found at 1 Cor. i. 9. — rris do^g, the glory) Aoga is the glory of the divine life, of incorruptibility , ch. i. 23, of the power and virtue, by which both Christ was raised, and we are restored to a new life, and are conformed to God, Eph. i. 19, etc. — h Har)brr\n, in newness) Ch. vii. 6 ; 2 Cor. v. 1 5, etc. This newness consists in life.
5. Xjptpvroi) LXX. (3ovv'og Gvptpvrog, bpopbg cvppvrog, a planted hill, a planted forest, Amos ix. 13 ; Zech. xi. 2, and on this account o /mi 6 pan here may be taken in the ablative. 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. %
1 See App., under the title Concisa Locutio.