Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 6:4

4. Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead , by the glory of the Father , even so we also should walk in newness of life .

q. d. Because we are thus Dead with Christ, therefore, &c.

i. e. We have Communion with Him in his burial also, which represents a farther degree of the Destruction of Sin, but putting it (as it were) out of our sight, Gen. 23.4. and having no more to do with it.

He seems here to Allude to the manner of baptizing in those warm Eastern Countryes, which was to Dip or Plunge the Party baptized; and as it were to bury him for a while under Water. See the like Phrase, Col. 2.12. Baptism doth not only represent our Mortification and death to Sin, but our Progress and Perseverance therein. Burial implyes a continuing under Death, so is Mortification a continual dying unto sin.

Look as after the death and burial of Christ, there follow'd his Resurrection; so it must be with us: We must have Communion with, and Conformity to the Lord Iesus Christ in his Resurrection, as well as his Death; both these are Represented and Sealed to us by the Sacrament of baptism.

i. e. By the Power of the Father, which is call'd, Col. 1.11. His glorious Power. God is said elsewhere to have raised him by his power, vid. 1 Cor. 6.14. and in 2 Cor. 13.4. He is said to Live by the Power of God. Some read it thus, He was Raised from the Dead, to the Glory of the Father. The Preposition [non-Latin text not transcribed], is sometimes rendred to, vid, 1 Pet. 1.3.

i. e. Live a new Life, being acted by new Principles ▪ aiming at new Ends, and bringing forth new Fruits of Holiness, vid. chap. 7.6.

Marginal references: Chap. 8.11. Phil. 3.10, 11.; Eph. 4.22, 23. Col. 3.10.