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And the prayer of faith; i.e. proceeding from faith; the cure is ascribed to prayer, the moral means, and standing ordinance, not to the anointing, which was but ceremonial and temporary; and to faith in prayer, to show that this remedy was effectual only when faith (requisite to the working of miracles) was active, viz. in a certain persuasion that the sick person should be healed.
Shall save the sick; restore to health, (if God see it fit, and the health of the body be good for the soul), Mar_10:52 Luk_7:50 18:42.
And the Lord shall raise him up; the elders pray, but the Lord raiseth up, being prayed to in faith.
Raise him up; the same as saving before, only the word seems to respect the sick man’s lying upon his bed, from which he riseth when he is healed, Mar_1:31.
If he have committed sins; if he have by his sins procured his sickness; or, those sins for which particularly God visits him with sickness; sin being often the cause of sickness, Mat_9:2 Joh_5:14 1Co_11:30, though not always, Joh_9:2.
They shall be forgiven him; God will take away the cause as well as the effect, heal the soul as well as the body, and prayer is the means of obtaining both.