And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
Prayer. He does not say the oil shall save: it is but the symbol.
Save - not, as Rome says, "save" the soul, but "the sick;" as the words, "the Lord shall raise him up," prove. So х sesooken (G4982)] 'made (thee) whole,' Matthew 9:21-22.
And if he have committed sins - for not all who are sick are so because of special sins. Here it is one visited with sickness for special sins (1 Corinthians 11:30-32).
Have committed, х ee (G5600) pepoieekoos (G4160)] - be in a state of having committed sins; i:e., be under their consequences.
They - or it: his having committed sins shall be forgiven him. The connection of sin and sickness appears in Isaiah 33:24; Matthew 9:2-5; John 5:14. The absolution of the sick in the Church of England refers to sins which the sick man confesses (James 5:16) and repents of, whereby outward scandal has been given to the Church; not to sins in their relation to God, the only Judge.