Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 6:29

29 And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek, offer also the other, and him that taketh away thy cloak, forbid not to take thy coat also.

We met also with a passage much like this, in this Verse, Matth. 5.39. the General Sense of which was, as I then said, A Prohibition of private Revenge. It is therefore there prefaced in with a more general Precept, Resist not Evil. But besides this there seems to be in it also a Prohibition of vexatious Suits and Molestations of others, tho under a Colour of Law, therefore Matthew saith, If any Man will sue thee at Law, and take away thy Cloak; and it may be thought a more special Precept relating to those times, when they had none but Heathen Magistrates, and in some Measure to be expounded by, 1 Cor. 6.7. and to be a Precept given with respect to the Reputation of the Gospel, that it might not be Scandalized by Christians, going to Law before Infidels. It is most certain it doth not forbid the use of the Law, whether for the defending, or recovering our just Rights, only the Irregular, or Scandalous use of it; see further the Notes on Matth. 5.39.

Marginal references: Mat. 5.39, 40.; 1 Cor. 6.7.