Again, the following passage near the close of the Article: "The ancient canons also show that one of the priests performed the mass, _and_ administered the communion to the other priests and deacons." [Note 32] (Auch zeigen die alten canones an, dasz einer das Amt gehalten hat UND die andern Priester und Diakon communicirt.) _c_.

Also the passage preceding this: "Our custom is, that on holy days, and also at other times, if communicants are present, _we hold mass_ AND _admit to communion_ such as desire it." (So wird diese Weise bei uns gehalten, dasz man an Feiertagen, auch sonst so communicanten da sind, mess haelt, und etliche so das begehren, communiciert.

_Servatur_ apud nos _una communis missa_ singulis feriis, atque aliis etiam diebus, si qui sacramento velint uti, _ubi porrigitur sacramentum his qui petunt_.) Here, then, we find three passages in this very Article itself, in which the mass is distinguished from the distribution of the supper, and the two things are connected by "and," necessarily implying their diversity.
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That the words [sic] mass is used in its appropriate specific sense in this Article, and not as synonymous with Lord's Supper, or eucharist, as the Plea for the Augsburg Confession [Note 33] asserts, is proved by the fact, that _if you substitute either of these words for it, many passages in the Article will not make sense_.

We will present a few specimens, which may be multiplied by any one who will take Article XXIV.