JETS 19:1 (Winter 1976) p. 21 revealed will of God as found in the Bible, it is in the fifth Beatitude calling for mercy.8 Fletcher, however, fails to elaborate on the meaning of mercy. He assumes that mercy and the alleviation of physical pain are synonymous. Rudolf Bultmann, in Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, points out that mercy, eleos, is a divinely required attitude of man toward his fellow man. Eleos is, however, based on the mercy of God both in his dealings with man in this