Blessing the Bible: A Catholic Pretense
Perhaps it is not generally known that in the Catholic Church there is such a thing as blessing the Bible. Persons can have Bibles “blessed” on application. Now the word of God says, “Without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.” Is, then, a Catholic priest or other functionary better than the Bible? If not, then it is certain that he can not bless the Bible. And everybody who will think, knows that no Catholic priest nor any other man can possibly be better than the Bible. Therefore it is perfectly plain that no man can possibly bless the Bible. Consequently all pretension to blessing the Bible by anybody is only mummery and false pretense.