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and even if a non-Israeli believed in him sincerely it would do him no harm, and nothing but good could proceed from it. It is said that on another occasion he had exhorted his disciples to carry his message into all the towns and villages and to all the people, but there is nothing to indicate that by all the towns and villages and all the people he meant anything more than all the towns and villages of the Bani-Israel and the whole of the Jewish people. He clearly directed his disciples to that effect, as would appear from: These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: but go rather to the lostsheep of the house of Israel'. (Matt. 10:5-6) Thus, the concept of Trinity finds no support from anything that Jesus is reported to have said. It is a concept which bewilders reason, offends conscience, and affronts Divine Majesty. It is utterly inconsistent with the concept of the Godhead. A body of distinguished Anglican theologians have described it as a myth, meaning, a story which is told but which is not literally true or an idea or an image which is applied to someone or something but which does not literally apply, but which invites a 31