Paul then states that, just as we were circumcised in Christ, we were also buried with him in baptism. John Calvin, the magisterial Reformer of Geneva, comments, “What do these words mean, except that the fulfillment and truth of baptism are also the truth and fulfillment of circumcision, since they signify the one and the same thing? For he is striving to demonstrate that baptism is for the Christians what circumcision previously was for the Jews.”5 Paul teaches that both sacraments serve as signs