Notes of Readings by F. W. G.: Romans 6

In Rom. 6 we are brought down to Jordan after Christ has been there for us. We are not baptized unto repentance, or merely to death, but His death. Of this we have a beautiful picture in Elisha (2 Kings 13:20-21). A dead man is let down into the tomb of Elisha-buried to death-a dead man buried to death. When he touches the prophet's bones he lives. We are as dead men buried by baptism unto Christ's, death that we may live.