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 will be security for him; you shall require him of me [personally]; if I do not bring him back to you and put him before you, then let me bear the blame forever.
But if I look to Sheol (the unseen state) as my abode, if I spread my couch in the darkness,
Blessed are You, O Lord; teach me Your statutes.
My son, if you have become security for your neighbor, if you have given your pledge for a stranger or another,
Like a twittering swallow or a crane, so do I chirp and chatter; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary and dim with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; take my side and be my security [as of a debtor being sent to prison].
And their prince will be one of them, and their ruler will come from the midst of them. I will cause him to draw near and he will approach Me, for who is he who would have the boldness and would dare [on his own initiative] to approach Me? says the Lord.
In keeping with [the oath's greater strength and force], Jesus has become the Guarantee of a better (stronger) agreement [a more excellent and more advantageous covenant].
But [that appointed time came] when Christ (the Messiah) appeared as a High Priest of the better things that have come and are to come. [Then] through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with [human] hands, that is, not a part of this material creation, He went once for all into the [Holy of] Holies [of heaven], not by virtue of the blood of goats and calves [by which to make reconciliation between God and man], but His own blood, having found and secured a complete redemption (an everlasting release for us). read more. For if [the mere] sprinkling of unholy and defiled persons with blood of goats and bulls and with the ashes of a burnt heifer is sufficient for the purification of the body, How much more surely shall the blood of Christ, Who by virtue of [His] eternal Spirit [His own preexistent divine personality] has offered Himself as an unblemished sacrifice to God, purify our consciences from dead works and lifeless observances to serve the [ever] living God? [Christ, the Messiah] is therefore the Negotiator and Mediator of an [entirely] new agreement (testament, covenant), so that those who are called and offered it may receive the fulfillment of the promised everlasting inheritance -- "since a death has taken place which rescues and delivers and redeems them from the transgressions committed under the [old] first agreement.
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 security for your neighbor, if you have given your pledge for a stranger or another,
He who becomes security for an outsider shall smart for it, but he who hates suretyship is secure [from its penalties].
A man void of good sense gives a pledge and becomes security for another in the presence of his neighbor.
Be not one of those who strike hands and pledge themselves, or of those who become security for another's debts.
In keeping with [the oath's greater strength and force], Jesus has become the Guarantee of a better (stronger) agreement [a more excellent and more advantageous covenant].