Reference: Suretiship
Fausets
("Person for person".) (Ge 43:9). The hand was given in token of undertaking the office or becoming responsible for a debt (Job 17:13; Pr 6:1; Ps 119:122; Isa 38:14): "undertake (harbeeni) for me," Hebrew "be surety for me." Christ is the "surety (enguos) of a better testament" (Heb 7:22; 9:11-15); Jer 30:21, "who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto Me?" literally, pledged his life, a thing unique: Messiah alone made His life responsible for ours. "Heart" implies the courage it needed to undertake such a tremendous suretiship; the question implies admiration at His union of Godhead and manhood qualifying Him for the work.
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"I myself will be surety for him; you may hold me responsible for him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame before you forever.
Blessed are You, O LORD; Teach me Your statutes.
My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, Have given a pledge for a stranger,
"Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter; I moan like a dove; My eyes look wistfully to the heights; O Lord, I am oppressed, be my security.
'Their leader shall be one of them, And their ruler shall come forth from their midst; And I will bring him near and he shall approach Me; For who would dare to risk his life to approach Me?' declares the LORD.
so much the more also Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.
But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. read more. For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
Morish
To become surety for another is condemned in the Proverbs as being unwise: "he that hateth suretiship is sure." To be surety for a stranger is totally condemned. Pr 6:1; 11:15; 17:18; 22:26. Many a Christian has suffered by being surety for a friend. It may be difficult to refuse, but it is unrighteousness unless the one who is surety can bear the loss if it should fall upon him.
The Psalmist asks God to be surety for him for good, Ps 119:122; and the Lord Jesus is made surety of a better testament, or covenant, than that made with Israel. Heb 7:22. He is the powerful One who is certain of being able to bring to pass in its due time all that is foretold that He will do in carrying out the purpose of God.
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Blessed are You, O LORD; Teach me Your statutes.
My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, Have given a pledge for a stranger,
He who is guarantor for a stranger will surely suffer for it, But he who hates being a guarantor is secure.
A man lacking in sense pledges And becomes guarantor in the presence of his neighbor.
Do not be among those who give pledges, Among those who become guarantors for debts.
so much the more also Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.