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 pledge security for him; you may hold me liable. If I do not bring him back to you and place him here before you, I will bear the blame before you all my life.
You deserve praise, O Lord! Teach me your statutes!
My child, if you have made a pledge for your neighbor, and have become a guarantor for a stranger,
Like a swallow or a thrush I chirp, I coo like a dove; my eyes grow tired from looking up to the sky. O sovereign master, I am oppressed; help me!
One of their own people will be their leader. Their ruler will come from their own number. I will invite him to approach me, and he will do so. For no one would dare approach me on his own. I, the Lord, affirm it!
accordingly Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.
But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation, and he entered once for all into the most holy place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured eternal redemption. read more. For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow sprinkled on those who are defiled consecrated them and provided ritual purity, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God. And so he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance he has promised, since he died to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant.
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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You deserve praise, O Lord! Teach me your statutes!
My child, if you have made a pledge for your neighbor, and have become a guarantor for a stranger,
The one who puts up security for a stranger will surely have trouble, but whoever avoids shaking hands will be secure.
The one who lacks wisdom strikes hands in pledge, and puts up financial security for his neighbor.
Do not be one who strikes hands in pledge or who puts up security for debts.
accordingly Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.