Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 6:5

5. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection .

He Prosecutes what he had before Propounded, and Illustrates it by an apt Similitude, which is taken from Graffing or Planting. He takes it for granted, That Believers are Planted together in the likeness of Christ's death, i. e. Are made Conformable to Him in his Death, vid. Phil. 3.10. Christ Dyed, and Believers Dye; the One a Natural▪ the Other a Spiritual Death. The One by way of Expiation, Suffering, and Satisfying for the Sins of others; the Other by way of Mortification, Killing, and Crucifying their own Sins.

In the Original, the Sentence is Elliptical and Imperfect: The Words running thus, We shall be of his Resurrection; our Translation therefore fills up the Sence, with a word borrowed from the preceding Clause. See the like, Iohn 5.36. I have a greater Witness than of Iohn. i. e. Than that witness of Iohn. The Sence of the whole is this, That Believers are not only dead, but risen with Christ, Col▪ 3.1. They partake of such a Resurrection as resembles His: As Christ Arose from the Dead to a New Life, so we Rise from Dead Works, to walk in Newness of Life, ver. 4. Moreover, they are raised and quickned by a Power and Vertue that flows from Christ and his Resurrection: This is that Vertu[illegible: 1 letter] which the Apostle Paul so earnestly desired to be made a Partaker of, Phil. 3.10. The Graft revives with the Stock in the Spring, and that by a Vertue which it receives from the Stock; So as a Believer is rais'd to Newness of Life, by a Vertue flowing from Christ, into whom he is Engraf[illegible: 1 letter]ed. Q. Why doth he say Believers shall be Planted, &c. Are they not so already, upon their believing in Christ? A. The Apostle rather chuseth to speak in the Future, than in the Present Tense: Rather we shall be, than we are, or have been. Because the Work is only begun, it daily increaseth more and more, until it comes to a [illegible: 1 letter]ull Perfection in Heaven.