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 surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:
Blessed art thou, O Jehovah: Teach me thy statutes.
My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbor, If thou hast stricken thy hands for a stranger;
Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.
And their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is he that hath had boldness to approach unto me? saith Jehovah.
by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.
But Christ having come a high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption. read more. For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling them that have been defiled, sanctify unto the cleanness of the flesh: how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they that 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 art thou, O Jehovah: Teach me thy statutes.
My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbor, If thou hast stricken thy hands for a stranger;
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; But he that hateth suretyship is secure.
A man void of understanding striketh hands, And becometh surety in the presence of his neighbor.
Be thou not one of them that strike hands, Or of them that are sureties for debts.
by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.