Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Is any man sick among you? or in danger of death by sickness, let him call, or bring in the priests of the Church. The apostle here enjoins the constant use of the sacrament, called extreme unction, or the last anointing with oil, instituted, (as were all the sacraments of the Church) by our Saviour Christ, and which is here fully and clearly delivered in plain words, expressing,
1. the persons to whom this sacrament is to be administered;
2. the minister;
3. the form;
4. the matter;
5. the effects.
1. As to the first, is any man sick among you? This sacrament then is to be given to every believing Christian, who is in danger of death by sickness.
2. Bring in the priests, one or more, they are the ministers of this sacrament. The Protestant translation has the elders; yet in their book of common prayer, he who is called in to assist and pray with the sick, is called either the minister, the curate, or the priest, never the elder. Dr. Wells has not changed the word elders in his ...
Let him bring in: See here a plain warrant of scripture for the sacrament of extreme unction, that any controversy against its institution would be against the express words of the sacred text in the plainest terms.
