“Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:”
Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. — Faith (πιστεύω, pisteuō) grasps the historical Christ-event and applies it existentially to the believer; the future tense indicates both present pledge and certain hope. Living with Christ is not merely post-mortem but present fellowship in his risen life, already anticipated in baptism and the Spirit.
Church Fathers on Romans 6:8
“Now if we be dead with Christ.” And indeed even before the crown, this is in itself the greater crown, the partaking with our Master. But he says, I give even another reward. Of what kind is it? It is life eternal. For “we believe,” he says, “that we shall also live with Him.” And whence is this clear?
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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