Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? You have renounced sin, and have become dead to it, and were buried with Christ; how is it possible then that you should allow this same sin? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. The very sacrament of baptism has taught you to flee from sin, for baptism carries in it the representation of our Lord's death, for in it you have shared both in the death and in the resurrection of Christ. It becomes you therefore to lead a new life, as it were, and one suited to Him in whose resurrection you have partaken.
Theodoret of Cyrus, "The Letter to the Romans" on Romans 6:3-4
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