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, at my hand, shalt thou require him, - as surely as I bring him not in unto thee, and set him down before thee, so surely will I be counted a sinner against thee all the days,
Blessed art thou, O Yahweh - Teach me thy statutes.
My son, if thou have become surety for thy neighbour, - have struck for a stranger thy hands,
As a twittering swallow, so, do I chatter, I coo as a dove, - Mine eyes languish through looking on high, O My Lord! distress is upon me - my Surety!
And, his illustrious one, shall spring, from himself, And his ruler, from his own midst, shall proceed, And I will bring him near and he shall approach unto me, - For who is there that hath pledged his own heart to approach unto me? Demandeth Yahweh:
By as much as this, hath, Jesus, become surety of a better covenant also.
But, when Christ approached, as high-priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tent, not made by hand, that is, not of this creation, - Nor yet through blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood he entered once for all into the Holy place, age-abiding redemption discovering. read more. For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the profaned, halloweth unto the purity of the flesh, How much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who through an age-abiding spirit offered himself unspotted unto God, purify our conscience from dead works, to the rendering of divine-service, unto a Living God? And, for this cause, of a new covenant, is he mediator, - to the end that, death coming to pass for the redemption of the transgressions against the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the age-abiding 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 Yahweh - Teach me thy statutes.
My son, if thou have become surety for thy neighbour, - have struck for a stranger thy hands,
He that becometh surety for a stranger, goeth to utter ruin, but, he that hateth striking hands, is secure.
A man lacking sense, is one who striketh hands, giving security, before his neighbour.
Be not of them who strike hands, of them who are sureties for debts:
By as much as this, hath, Jesus, become surety of a better covenant also.