"If any man will sue you at the law, and take away your coat, let him have your cloak also." (Matthew 5:40)
If all the professed followers of Christ had followed that counsel, they would have been better off. There is sound sense in it.
Many men have gone to law, and spent ten pounds, to recover one. Sometimes a person wins his case, and gets justice; but even then his expenses more than amount to what it would have cost him to settle the case without law.
To be sure one cannot gratify his desire for revenge in this way, but Christians do not have such a desire. There is sound business sense, as well as Gospel, in the injunction, "Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are in the way with him." (Matthew 5:25)--Present Truth, April 26, 1894--Timeline: IV-15 (Sermon on the Mount)--Matthew 5:25, 40.