Latin · Chapter 11 · Lesson 5 · Grammar primer
The Gloria and the Sanctus
The sung heart of the mass: the genitive the carols argue about, and the Hebrew loanwords Latin kept as they came.
The short version
Bonae voluntatis: the genitive carols argue about
Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis - peace to people OF good will, a genitive of quality. The King James's peace, good will toward men reads a different Greek text entirely, which is why the Latin mass and the English carol disagree; the grammar is the evidence.
hominibus bonae voluntatis - to people of good will
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