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Most assuredly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.
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Settle Disputes Urgently
Jesus uses the severe image of a debtor's prison, from which there is no escape until the last penny is paid, to stress the urgency of resolving conflicts. Commentators highlight the practical wisdom: it is better to settle quickly, even at a loss, than to let a dispute escalate into a destructive legal or relational battle where you lose everything.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Agree with your adversary quickly. This is still an illustration of the sixth commandment. To be in hostility, to go to law, to be litigio…
The last farthing (τον εσχατον κοδραντην). A Latin word, quadrans, 1/4 of an as_
(ασσαριον) or two mites (), a vivid…
19th Century
Anglican
The uttermost farthing — The Greek word is derived from the Latin quadrans, the fourth part of the Roman as, a s…
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Baptist
While you are in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you b…
Jesus again urges haste to settle matters with an offended adversary while still “with him on the way” to court. In the ancient world debtors were …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Verily, I say to you This may be depended upon, you may assure yourself of it, that
you shall by …
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The Jewish teachers had taught that nothing except actual murder was forbidden by the sixth commandment. In this way, they explained away its spiri…
13th Century
Catholic
For I tell you, that unless your justice abound more than that of the scribes and Pharisees. Above, the Lord showed that …
