Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I They affirm that for this reason Jesus spoke the following parable:-"Whilst thou art with thine adversary in the way, give all diligence, that thou mayest be delivered from him, lest he give thee up to the judge, and the judge surrender thee to the officer, and he cast thee into prison. Verily, I say unto thee, thou shalt not go out thence until thou pay the very last farthing."[298] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Jam vero ipse quoque Servator, cui soil censent esse parendum, odio bere, et maledictis insequi prohibuit et, "Cum adversario," inquit, "vadens, ejus amicus conare discedere."[31] Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV But how absurd, that he should now be commanding them to judge righteously, who was destroying God the righteous Judge! For the Judge, who commits to prison, and allows no release Out of it without the payment of "the very last mite,"[1224] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIV in order that when any one isfound who has not "given diligence to be freed from the adversary," he may go in succession throughthe hands of the magistrate, and the judge, and the attendant into the prison, until he pays the verylast mite;[62]