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What he means is this: be reasonable before judgment.If you are accused and jailed, you are not released until you pay down to an obol — that is what the quadrans shows.
He exhorts us to be reasonable and not to trust the lawsuit.If something goes against hope and the judge holds you, you will not be released until you pay the last obol.That is what is called a quadrans (Matthew 5:25–26).