A. “As to likeness (ὁμοιώματι), the reference is to baptism, but ομ is not merely likeness as comparison. Christ was made in the likeness of man, according to this pattern. It is not the thing itself but, in the case of Christ’s humanity, clearly not the denial of it. If I have taken my place with Christ, I have taken it with Him as dead and consequently, if it be His death, it involves, according to the same pattern, resurrection. He takes the reality of the thing, but takes it as expressed and patterned in baptism. In Romans we are not risen with Him in baptism.”