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Mat 5:26. Ἕως ἄν, until) The debtor is left to himself; see ch. Mat 18:34. It is strange that the expression, ἕως ἄν, should have been urged by those, who hence infer the possibility of payment, rather than τὸν ἔσχατον κοδράντην, the last farthing.-τὸν ἔσχατον, the last) Thus does Divine justice exact everything, not a single farthing more or less than you owe.[209]-κοδράντην, quadrantem) Substantives which express foreign articles are very frequently transferred from one language to another, instead of being translated.[210]
[209] O the vain and most deceitful persuasion of the old man, whereby he supposes that God will only lightly exact the debts due to Him. Nay, unless remission interpose so as to remove utterly one’s countless faults, the uttermost avarice of man does not exercise as great rigour, as the divine justice justly and deservedly maintains.-Vers. Germ.
[210] The quadrans, the fourth part of an asse, about a farthing and a half of our money.-(I. B.)