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Between Horror and Hope: Paul’s Metaphorical Language of Death in Romans 6:1–11 is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book argues that Paul’s metaphorical language of death in Romans 6:1–11 conveys two aspects: horror and hope. The horror aspect is conveyed by the crucifixion language, and the hope aspect by burial language. The life of the Christian believer is understood, as relationship with sin is concerned (“death to sin”), between these two realities: horror and hope.

The Calvary event is discussed specifically at the moments of crucifixion and burial. These two moments are applied metaphorically to the believers as far as the question of sin is concerned. In his discourse from Romans 6:1–14 Paul integrates the element of sin in order to defend his thesis in 6:2. He does it against a complex network of ideas in 6:6. He works with his way of speaking about the believers’ past, namely ‘our old man’, which we interpreted5 as being a way of speaking about our past
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