The Pulpit Commentary — Romans — Section 162

following donth in our caee ne in Christ's. e~preP.sed by it hae the support of Origen, 'fhe sense, therefore, is-As our burial (or Cliry,;ostnm, and other aneient Fath1ffe; alM totnl immorsion) in the b[lptismal wakr was of tl.to Vulgate, ancl, amrmg modane, Bna, followo,l by ontire omergence, so our death Luthe-r, an<l othe-ra; while sr,me inclurlin"' with Christ to sin, which that immersion Erasmus, Calvin, Eetiue, Comeli;e a. Lapid.;: eymbolizocl, is to be followed by our resur- understand "engrafted ") probably sngge,sts rection with him to a new life. Ae to the what W68 not intended. 16µ,pv.-o~ is from B&ia .-ov 1ra.-pbs, through which Ohriet is <1vµ,,f,6&> (not <1vµ,pv.-,6&>), an,l need only ex- here said to have been raised, eee what was press being made to grow together in close said under oh. iii. 23. "Ad!a est glnria association. In classic authom it oomroonly divinm vitm, inoorruptibilite.tis, potentim, means innate. It seems here uaed, not to et virtutis, per quam et Christus resusci- introduce a new figure, whetbe-r of plantin"' tatus est, et nos vitm novm restituimur, or grafting, but only to express the cia;;, Deoque oonformamur. Eph. i 19, seqq." union with Christ, already intimated, into (Bengel). In some passages our Lord is which we entered in baptism. The Revised regarded es having been raised from the Version has "have become united with him," dead in virtue of the Divine life that we.s which may perhaps sufficiently express what in himself, whereby it was impossible that is meant, though hardly a satisfactory ren- he should be holden of death (see under dering of rr6µ,pvro,. Tyndale and Cranmer oh. i. 4). And he BBid of hie own ,j,vxfi, translate " graft in deeth lyke unto him; " "I have power to lay it down, e.nd I he.ve and perhaps " graft into" may be as good a power to take it age.in" (John x. 18). But rendering e.s any other. Meyer, Tholuck, here, as most commonly elsewhere, hie resur- Alford, and others take the dative "'P /Jµm- rection is attributed to the operation of the ,:,,,_,..,., 118 governed by a6µ,pv.-o,, eq1fr,alent glory of the Father-the same Divine power to 1i,.,.,,r.,s a.1re6a.vo,uev C,q,rep m'rros (Tholnck). that regenerates us in him (of. 1 Cor. vi. But it may be better to understand Xp,a-rrp: 14 ; 2 Cor. xiii. 4 ; Eph. i. 19, etc. ; Col ii. "Graft into Christ, in the likeness of his 12; also our Lord's own prayers to the death," .-<j /Jµo1@JJ,4'T1 being adcled because Father previously to hie suffering, as given Christ's death and onr11, in the senses in- by St. John). The two views a.re not incon- tended, are not the same kind of death sistent, e.nd may serve to show Christ's one- literally, ours only corresponding to, and ness with the Father as touching his God- in a certain sense like his. The main pur- head. The marked association here and pose of this verse, 118 of ver. 4, is to press elsewhere of union with Christ, so as to die resurrection with Christ as following death. and rise a.gain with him, with the rite of with him. But why here the future err&,ueC:,.? baptism, supports the orthodox view of that Did we not rise with Christ to e. new life sacrament being not only e. signwm Bignifi- when we emerged from our baptismal cans, but a Bignum effi.c=; as not only burial? Future verbs are n...sed nlso with representing, but being "e. means whereby a similar reference in ver. S and ,n. H. we receive" regeneration. The beginning Now, there are three senses ill which our of the new life of believers, with the power resurrection with Christ may be understood. as well as the obligation to lead suoh a life, (1) As above (of. Col. ii. 12, etc., where is ever i-egMded as de.ting from their bap- the expression is <T1Jvtrr•plhrr•). (2) Our tism (of. Gel. iii. 27 ; Col. ii. 12). It is realization of our position of power o.nd true, however, that in all such passages in obligation in subsequent life-e.ctne.lly in the New Testament the baptism of adulta practice "dying from sin and rising again is referred to; that is, of persons who at unto righteousness" (cf. below, vers. 12- the time of boptism were capable of actual 14). (3) The resurrection of the dead here- repentance and faith, and hence of actual after. Some (inoluding Tertnllian, Chry&>S- moral regenemtion, and they are supposed tom, CEcumeuius) have taken sense (3) to to have understood the signifioanoe of the be here intended ; but, though the words rite, and to have been sincere in seeking it. themselves, irr&,.,6a and a,,(frqoµ,11 in ver. 8, Henoe what is said or im]i>lied oannot fairly suggest this sense, it can hardly be intended be pressed as applicoble m all respects to here, nt any rate m:olusively or prominently, infant baptism. This, however, is not the sinoe the drift of the whole pt1s..s,,~ is to plaoe for discussing the propriety of infant insist on the necessity of an dthic"<ll resur-- baptism, or the sense in whioh 1111 b11ptizod reotion now; 1md H is evident th,\t the por!Klns ore regarded by the Ohuroh as in olause before us cor~sponds with o~-,., «al their very baptism regenornte. 41,.us, eto., in the previous verse, nnd t0 wx. Ver. 5.-l'or if we have been planted 11, et ldll· The future /qJµ,8a is under- together in the likene11 of hia death, we stood by eowe as only expressing co,18<!- ■hall be also in the llken€1ss of his reenrreo- quen- neot>ssnry conclusion from a tlon. Bo the Authorizod Version. But the premiss, thus: If snQh 1\ thing i, the c1\Sll, Flnglisli word "pli.nted' (though tile idOR ■noh other Uiing will follow. If llO, SCllil8 158 'l'IIE EPISTLE 01<' PAUL TO THE ROMANS. [on. vr.1-28,