Certainty; indubitableness. Know of a surety, that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs-- Genesis 15:13.

Security; safety. Yet for the more surety they looked round about.

Foundation of stability; support. We our state . Hold, as you yours, while our obedience holds; . On other surety none.

Evidence; ratification; confirmation. She call’d the saints to surety. That she would never put it from her finger, Unless she gave it to yourself.

Security against loss or damage; security for payment. There remains unpaid . A hundred thousand more, in surety of the which . One part of Aquitain is bound to us.

In law, one that is bound with and for another; one who enters into a bond or recognizance to answer for another’s appearance in court, or for his payment of a debt or for the performance of some act, and who, in case of the principal debtor’s failure, is compellable to pay the debt or damages; a bondsman; a bail. He that is surety for a stranger, shall smart for it. Proverbs 11:15. Thy servant became surety for the lad to my father. Genesis 44:32. ”

In Scripture, Christ is called “the surety of a better testament. Hebrews 7:22. He undertook to make atonement for the sins of men, and thus prepare the way to deliver them from the punishment to which they had rendered themselves liable.

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