“I tell thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast paid the very last mite.”
Luke 12:59 — Greek Interlinear
Church Fathers on Luke 12:59
Our Lord having described a rightful difference, next teaches us a rightful reconciliation, saying, When you go with your adversary to the magistrate, as you are in the way, give diligence that you may be delivered from him, &c. As if He says, When your adversary is bringing you to judgment, give diligence, that is, try every method, to be released from him. Or give diligence, that is, although you have nothing, borrow in order that you may be released from him, lest he…
Where you will suffer want until you pay the last farthing; and this is what He adds, I say to you, you shall not depart hence.
It seems to me that He is speaking of the present judges, and of the way to the present judgment, and of the prison of this world. For by these things which are visible and at hand, ignorant men are wont to gain improvement. For often He gives a lesson, not only from future good and evil but from present, for the sake of His ruder hearers.