“Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. — Λογίζομαι (logizomai, "reckon/count") is financial language: believers are to register themselves as possessing a new accounting in Christ, dead on sin's ledger, alive to God's. This is declarative identity—not self-generated but acknowledged in baptism. The imperative rests on the indicative already established.
Church Fathers on Romans 6:11
“Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God.” He well says, “reckon,” because there is no setting that, which he is speaking of, before the eyes as yet. And what are we to reckon? One may ask. That we “are dead unto sin, but alive unto God. In Jesus Christ our Lord.” For he that so lives will lay hold of every virtue, as having Jesus Himself for his ally. For that is what, “in Christ,” means, for if He raised them when dead, much more…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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