[85] Οἵτινες: the paraphrase is perhaps a slight exaggeration of the force of the pronoun. [86] Ὅσοι ἐβαπτίσθημεν: we give a paraphrase, not a translation, to shew the meaning practically. [87] We thus paraphrase a difficult sentence. It seems to us that the ὁμοίωμα τοῦ θανάτου Αὐτοῦ must refer to the baptismal rite. If so, our paraphrase as a whole will be justified.--As to the "_plunge_" and "_emergence_," we would only say, without entering further on an agitated question, that it seems to us clear that baptism was at first, _theoretically_, an entire immersion, but that, also primevally, the theory was allowed to be modified in practice; _the pouring_ of water in such cases _representing_ the ideal immersion. As early as "_the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles_," cent. i. (ch. vii.), there are signs of this. [88] More literally, perhaps, "_shall also come to life with Him_." If we read this aright, it points to the prospect _future at the moment of the atoning Death_, when, ideally, we died. It does not therefore mean, practically, _that we do not live with Him now_, as we certainly do (see just below, ver. 11). But it is as if to say, "we believe that our share in His risen Life _surely follows_, now and always, our share in His atoning Death." [89] The words τῷ Κυρίῳ ἡμῶν are to be omitted from the text. [90] Μὲ βασιλευέτω: possibly the present imperative may imply, "do not _go on letting_ it reign." [91] Omit αὐτῃ ἐν from the text. [92] Παριστάνετε: we may perhaps explain this present imperative also to mean "do not _go on so doing_." [93] Παραστήσατε: the aorist certainly implies a critical resolve, a _decision_ of surrender. CHAPTER XV _JUSTIFICATION AND HOLINESS: ILLUSTRATIONS FROM HUMAN LIFE_ ROMANS vi. 14--vii. 6 At the point we have now reached, the Apostle's thought pauses for a moment, to resume.[94] He has brought us to self-surrender. We have seen the sacred obligations of our divine and wonderful liberty. We have had the miserable question, "_Shall we cling to sin?_" answered by an explanation of the rightness and the bliss of giving over our accepted persons, in the fullest liberty of will, to God, in Christ. Now he pauses, to illustrate and enforce. And two human relations present themselves for the purpose; the one to shew the absoluteness of the surrender, the other its living results. The first is Slavery, the second is Wedlock.