When Charlie next took up his efforts, the plan had coalesced in his brain to follow the pioneering lead of those who had made a profitable business venture of the Bible. THEN he'd use the Latin to make his term papers sound IMPORTANT for the Frat boys and Sorority chicks; they'd hire you for telling people what to do profitably after they inherited. The Bible was not _supposed_ to be a business plan, so he took a while in the Library for some online research. Jimmy Swaggert was an old profit, and he had been excoriated as not using the Bible correctly. If by "correctly," you meant Charity, _everyone_ could agree. It was like the infallibility of the Pope, though; not all for the same reasons:
The Catholics believed the Pope was infallible because he wasn't married. The Protestants believed the Pope was infallible because he didn't have a wife to tell him his mistakes. Charlie wasn't sure if this proved the Pope was unmarried, or merely that the Pope was Catholic, but of _this_ he was certain: Everyone agreed about it!
Everyone agreed the Bible was for Charity too, and this was Swaggert's failing as a bible. As a businessman he was instructive, and Charlie thumbed through to the relevant citation: Malachi 3:8.
He reflected on the use of the first person. This verse likely _belonged_ in the bible - God seemed to have said it himself! ...if the bible was from God - postage from there and delivery addresses back then without zip codes? God himself might have had his problems.
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