Matthew 5:25

25. Adversary A plaintiff at law, to whom a debt or payment of penalty is due. While thou art in the way with him An allusion to the Roman law, by which the plaintiff himself seized the defendant, and drew him before the court for trial. So in Luke 12:58, it is, “When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way.” Our Lord here counsels a compromise on the way. Officer Who executes the penalty.

The whole is a symbolical representation of divine judgment, as is shown by the next verse, in which justice without mercy is inflexibly declared. The Adversary stands for our offended God. Quickly and the way stand for the brief period of our probation The Judge is the Son of man at his coming. The officer is the judicial angel. Matthew 25:31. The prison is hell. Sentiment, repair every wrong before divine justice inflict punishment to the utmost.