Commenting on Romans 6:3-4, Theodore of Mopsuestia wrote:
Or don't you
know this, he says, that baptism makes us participants in the death of Christ?
For when we were baptized according to the traditional form, which is fitting
for us, we seem to have been buried with him. We were also raised in him
according to the traditional form. Just as the Lord was raised from the dead
and established in a different, new kind of life; likewise, we are established
in a new kind of life after baptism. We consider that kind of life, which we
believe we are brought into by baptism, worthy to display. (Gregory Charles
David, “Theodore of Mopsuestia's Commentary on Romans: An Annotated Translation,”
PhD. Dissertation [The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1992], 43)
