Romans 6:2 (WEB)
May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
Fathers and councils · 5
John Chrysostom
“Far from it!” ( Rom. vi. 1, 2.)” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
“Thus, too, repute ye yourselves dead indeed to sin, but living to God through Christ Jesus.”” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 1–11.
Read the whole comment“For he says that “we are dead to the law.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 4, also Gal. ii. 19. This (although a quotation) is here a Marcionite argument; but there is no need to suppose, with Pamelius, that Marcion tampers…
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Augustine of Hippo
“To those who are baptized into the death of Christ, then,—and this class includes not adults only, but infants as well,—he says: “Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 1–11
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Clement of Alexandria
“Quoniam veins homo nosier simul est crucifixus, ut destruatur corpus peccati,” usque ad illud: “Neque exhibete membra vestra, arma injustitiæ peccato.”” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 2, 6.
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 52.