It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him :
Ver. 11. It is a faithful saying] A sound and a sure assertion,Romans 8:17. Afflictions are the praeludia triumphi, prelide of a triumph.
If we be dead] As Christ, 2 Timothy 2:8. Or, for Christ, if we be in deaths often, and at length lose our lives for his name's sake.