Delivering Good or Evil

Now, the vehicles of blessings and curses are usually words. They may be words that are spoken, words that are written, or simply words that are pronounced inwardly.

However, both curses and blessings can be transferred or transmitted by objects, by physical objects. So it is not always just a question of words. To take a very simple example, in the communion that we celebrate as Christians, Paul says,

“The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?”

So, through that cup, which is a physical object, with the wine in it, God transmits to us a blessing.