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It may be well to draw attention of all readers to the following facts:
(1)
These wondrous "reckonings", "crucified with", "dead with", "buried with",
"quickened with", "raised with", and "seated with", are found only in Paul's
epistles to the churches, and are entirely absent from the Epistle to the
Hebrews.
(2)
The preposition sun "with" enters so little into any doctrine that the Apostle
taught the Hebrews, that it does not once occur as a separate preposition.
(3)
In combination sun occurs in twelve forms in Hebrews, but not one
approximates in any way to the blessed teaching we are now considering. In
order that every reader may have full liberty of research we give these
twelve combinations of sun before passing on.
"To suffer affliction with"
sugkakoucheomai
(Heb. 11: 25).
"To be mixed with"
sugkerannumi
(Heb. 4: 2).
"To be heirs with"*
sugkleronomos
(Heb. 11: 9).
"To be touched with"
sumpatheo
(Heb. 4: 15; 10: 34).
"To bring together" (profit)
sumphero
(Heb. 12: 10).
"To meet together"
sunantao
(Heb. 7: 1, 10).
"To perish together"
sunapollumai
(Heb. 11: 31).
"To be bound with"
sundeomai
(Heb. 13: 3).
"To perceive together" (conscience)
suneidesis
(Heb. 9: 9, 14).
"To bear witness with"
sunepimartureo
(Heb. 2: 4).
"To end together"
sunteleia
(Heb. 9: 26).
"To end together" (complete)
sunteleo
(Heb. 8: 8).
[* - The only word of this list that is found also in Ephesians. It has a
perfectly association however, which we will consider in its right place.]
In this list we have positive evidence that the Apostle freely used compounds of sun,
yet the absence of the very key words of Ephesians is eloquent testimony to the fact that
the Apostle was not dealing with the same calling. For completeness sake, therefore, we
must give another list, namely of the compounds of sun, that are peculiar to the calling of
Ephesians.
"To sit together"
sunkathizo
(Eph. 2: 6).
"To be heirs with"*
sugkleronomos
(Eph. 3: 6).
"To have in common with"
sugkoinoneo
(Eph. 5: 11).
"To quicken together"
suzoopoieo
(Eph. 2: 5).
"To be compacted together"
sumbibazo
(Eph. 4: 16).
"To be partakers together"
summetochos
(Eph. 3: 6).
"To be citizens together"
sumpolites
(Eph. 2: 19).
"To be joined together"
sunarmologeomai
(Eph. 2: 21; 4: 16).
"That which binds together"
sundesmos
(Eph. 4: 3).
"To be roused together"
sunegeiro
(Eph. 2: 6).
"To run together" (knowledge)
sunesis
(Eph. 3: 4).
"That which runs together" (understanding)
suniemi
(Eph. 5: 17).
"To built together"
sunoikodomeomai
(Eph. 2: 22).
"A joint body"
sussoma
(Eph. 3: 6).
[* - As indicated above.]