<p>6:3&nbsp;<i>Or are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?</i>&ndash; A common appeal of Paul&rsquo;s in his letters (Rom. 7:1; 11:25; 1 Cor. 10:1; 12:1; 1 Thess. 4:13). His earnest desire was that his readership would appreciate the real import of what they knew in theory.&nbsp;</p><p>Galatians was one of Paul&rsquo;s earlier letters. In it, he speaks of his own baptism: &ldquo;I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live&rdquo; (Gal. 2:19-21). Years later he writes to the Romans about&nbsp;<em>their&nbsp;</em>baptisms, in exactly the same language: &ldquo;All of us who have been baptized&hellip; our old self was crucified with him&hellip; the life he lives he lives to God&rdquo; (Rom. 6:1-10). He clearly seeks to forge an identity between his readers and himself; their baptisms were and are as radical as his in their import. Note how in many of his letters, especially Galatians and Corinthians, he switches so easily between &ldquo;you&rdquo; and &ldquo;we&rdquo;, as if to drive home the fact that there was to be no perception of distance between him the writer and us the readers. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>