5839. 'For your servant became surety for the boy to my father, saying' means an attachment. This is clear from the meaning of 'being surety' as attaching to itself, as previously in 5609. For during the intervening period when the truth that 'Benjamin' represents is not present with spiritual good, meant by 'father', it can be present with the good of the external Church, which 'Judah' represents. For this good and spiritual good act as one through correspondence.