“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.
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