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In ancient Athens, Eleos (Ancient Greek Ἔλεος m.) or Elea [citation needed] was the personification of mercy, clemency, compassion and pity – the counterpart of the Roman goddess Clementia. [citation needed] Pausanias described her as "among all the gods the most useful to human life in all its vicissitudes." [1]
Kyrie XI ("orbis factor")—a fairly ornamented setting of the Kyrie in Gregorian chant—from the Liber Usualis. Kyrie, a transliteration of Greek Κύριε, vocative case of Κύριος (), is a common name of an important prayer of Christian liturgy, also called the Kyrie eleison (/ ˈ k ɪr i. eɪ ɛ ˈ l eɪ. i s ɒ n / KEER-ee-ay el-AY-eess-on; Ancient Greek: Κύριε ἐλέησον ...
The words used in the Bible in Hebrew to designate mercy, including divine mercy, are rakham (Exodus 34:6; Isaiah 55:7), khanan (Deut. 4:31) and khesed (Nehemiah 9:32). [2]In the Greek of the New Testament and of the Septuagint, the word most commonly used to designate mercy, including divine mercy, is eleos.
[citation needed] Clementia was seen as a good trait within a leader, it also the Latin word for "humanity" or "forbearance". This is opposed to Saevitia which was savagery and bloodshed. Yet, she was the Roman counterpart of Eleos, [citation needed] (not to be confused with Soteria), the Greek goddess of mercy and forgiveness who had a shrine ...
The Chi Rho circled with the Prayer: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me". Early Christians viewed Jesus as "the Lord" and the Greek word Kyrios (κύριος) which may mean God, lord or master appears 775 times in the New Testament, referring to him.
The words which are quoted are from Hosea 6:6. Lapide notes that sacrifice was considered one of the noblest elements of religion which shows the high regard placed on mercy. The NIV leaves out "to repentance" (εἰς μετάνοιαν in Greek).
Grace and mercy are similar in that both are free gifts of God and both are dispensed absent any merit on the part of the recipient. Grace is the favor of God, a divine assistance. Grace is what one receives that one does not deserve while mercy is what one receives when one does not get what one deserves. [6]
Jerome: "What I will have mercy, and not sacrifice signifies, we have explained above. The words Ye would never have condemned the innocent are to be referred to the Apostles, and the meaning is, If ye allow the mercy of Achimelech, in that he refreshed David when in danger of famishing, why do ye condemn My disciples?" [3]