"like":
Gr: ομοιωματι specifies that our death to sin resembles the death of Christ
only as a comparison, not as an exact identification. The Greek sense is:
"for if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, indeed
we shall also be with his resurrection," that is, our baptism is like a
death, and our newness of life is like a resurrection, and the former assures
the letter. The verb γεγοναμεν ("have been") is a perfect tense,
while εσομεθα ("we shall") is a future tense, both tenses denoting an
increase, that is, we will grow in this twofold likeness of Christ (see vr.
11). (Robert A. Sungenis, The Epistles of Romans and James [The Catholic
Apologetics Study Bible; San Goleta, Calif.: Queenship Publishing, 2007], 48 n.
139)
BDAG:
5296 ὁμοίωμα
• ὁμοίωμα, ατος, τό
(ὁμοιόω;
Pla., Parm. 132d; 133d, Phdr. 250b; Ps.-Aristot., Int. 1, 16a, 7f; SIG 669, 52;
PFay 106, 20; LXX; En 31:2; Just., D. 94, 3).
1. state of having common experiences, likeness e;vν ὁμ. τυγχάνειν ‘liken’ Theoph. Ant. 2, 16 [p. 140, 12]) οὗ (Χριστοῦ) καὶ κατὰ τὸ ὁμοίωμα ἡμᾶς … οὕτως ἐγερεῖ ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ in
accordance with whose likeness (=just as God raised him) his
Father will also raise us in this way ITr 9:2. This is prob. the place for Ro 6:5 εἰ σύμφυτοι
γεγόναμεν τῷ
ὁμοιώματι τ. θανάτου αὐτοῦ if we
have been united (i.e. αὐτῷ with him; cp.
vs. 4 συνετάφημεν αὐτῷ) in
the likeness of his death (=in the same death that he died); but s.
PGächter, ZKT 54, 1930, 88-92; OKuss, D. Römerbr. I, ’63, 301. On the syntax,
B-D-F §194, 2; Rob. 528. ἁμαρτάνειν ἐπὶ τῷ ὁμοιώματι τῆς παραβάσεως Ἀδάμ sin in the likeness of Adam’s
transgression (=just as Adam did, who transgressed one of God’s
express commands) 5:14.—Abstr. for concr. τὰ ὁμοιώματα
= τὰ
ὅμοια: ὃς ἃν τὰ ὁμοιώματα
ποιῇ τοῖς ἔθνεσιν whoever does things similar to (the deeds of) the
gentiles = acts as the gentiles do Hm 4, 1, 9. περὶ τοιούτων
τινῶν ὁμοιωμάτων πονηρῶν (thoughts) about any other wicked things similar to
these 4, 1, 1.—ἐν τίνι ὁμοιώματι παραβάλωμεν αὐτήν; with what
corresponding thing can we compare it? Mk 4:30 v.l.
