The Bishop of Antioch realizes that this “external” verdict somehow or other actually hits upon a central truth, although the way in which it is true is internal: fellowship with Jesus is in fact a participation in his death, and thus (only thus) in his life.7 The idea that Christians are united in a conspiracy with Christ is correct insofar as Christians do not merely adopt a theory about Jesus, but enter into his way of living and dying and make it their own. “Since we have become his disciples,