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He was, of course, speaking to living people and telling them that righteousness had been conferred on them through the mysteries.How, then, does he say someone is justified whom he calls dead, unless he is showing beyond ambiguity that here he calls renunciation ‘death’?He adopts the name of death to show that believers should cease from sins as dead people cease from activities.
Nempe cum viventibus loquebatur et his dicebat iustitiam per mysteria fuisse collatam. Quomodo ergo ait eum iustificatum esse, quem mortuum, nisi quia sine aliquo ostendit ambiguo mortem hic abrenuntiationem vocare et ideo a se nomen mortis assumi, ut ostendat ita fideles a peccatis sicut mortuos ab actibus debere cessare?