6:7
“For one who has died has been set free from sin”. Literally it says “has been justified from sin”. Slaves could gain their freedom by a process called manumission, but under manumission the freed slave could well still have some obligations to their former owner. It was only when the freed slave died that all obligations ended. We have died to sin, sin no longer has any rights over our lives.
6:8
For the freed slave who died, that was the end of it, nothing. We have died with Christ, we are also raised with Christ, we live with Him. As pointed out earlier, the physical resurrection is of necessity in the future! But the metaphorical resurrection begins now. We have died to sin, but there is now not nothing, but a new life. We are dead to sin, but alive to Christ, and alive in Christ. We live with Him. Under this picture of the gospel the notion of contemplating continuing to sin as a desirable way if life is just utter nonsense.
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