28 1227 According to the Apostle Paul, the believer enters through Baptism into communion with Christ's death, is buried with him, and rises with him: Do you not know that all of us who have been ...

Owing to the ethical interest in the passage, the emphasis is on the last aspect: “We were buried with him through baptism to death that … we might walk in newness of life” (v. 4).

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united ...