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MAny Catholikes endeauour to shew the word Missa (Masse) to be Hebrew,* 1.1 for Deut. 16. there is the word (〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉) in the same signification: and not the Catholikes only, but Philip Melanchton acknow∣ledges this deriuation. Other (and their opinion is more probable) hold it to be Latine; of whom also
some hold it to be (a Mittendo) because our offerings and prayers are sent vp to God. So Hugo de Sancto victore (lib. 2. de Sacram.) Others lesse probably, for that an Angell is sent from God to assist the Sacri∣fice, and carry it to God, as the Master of Sent. and Thomas (3. p. q. 83.) But their opinion is most like∣ly, which deriue it a missione, seu, dimissione populi: This opinion is Isidores, Rabanus, and Hugo, and o∣thers later Diuines admit this Etymology. Bellarm. de Missa, l. 1. c. 1. p. 616.
Plurimi conan∣tur, &c.