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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.

since burial marks a death that has already taken place.’154 Moo argues that ‘this burial not only marks the end of the old life but is also part of the transition to a new life, in which the believer is now called to ‘walk’.155 ‘Burial both sets the seal on death and prepares for that which is to follow: living a new life patterned after the resurrection of Christ.’156 So, the majority of scholars point to the fact that a burial is the seal of death; when someone is buried it is shown that he is
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