In the epistle to the Romans, Paul crafts a theological symphony—one that harmonizes doctrine and devotion, law and grace, death and life. Nowhere is this more evident than in Romans 6:5, where the Apostle articulates the believer’s union with Christ through the lens of shared likeness in death and resurrection. This verse, though brief, houses a grammatical construction rich with nuance and implication: the use of the future indicative ἐσόμεθα following a conditional clause introduced by εἰ.
The structure of the sentence is deceptively simple:
εἰ γὰρ σύμφυτοι γεγόναμεν τῷ ὁμοιώματι τοῦ θανάτου αὐτοῦ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς ἀναστάσεως ἐσόμεθα.… Learn Koine Greek
