“For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:”
For if we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. — The future tense ("will certainly be") assures ultimate resurrection, grounded in present union (σύμφυτος, symphytos, "grown together with"); Paul's logic is participatory, not contractual. Just as his death is our death, his exaltation is our exaltation. The realized eschatology of baptism points forward to bodily resurrection.
Church Fathers on Romans 6:5
What I had before occasion to remark, that I mention here too, that he continually digresses into exhortation, without making any twofold division as he does in the other Epistles, and setting apart the former portion for doctrines, and the latter for the care of moral instruction. Here then he does not do so, but blends the latter with the subject throughout, so as to gain it an easy admission. Here then he says there are two mortifyings, and two deaths, and that one is done…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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