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78(b) All the four beasts are represented in the vision as irrational brutes; but the Little Horn possessed a human mouth and eyes, which is, in other words, the description of a hideous monster endowed with reason and speech. He proclaimed Christianity as the true religion, left Rome to the Pope and made Byzantium, which was named Constantinople, the seat of the empire. He pretended to profess Christianity but was never baptized until a little before his death, and even this is a disputed question. The legend that his conversion was due to the vision of the Cross in the sky has long since, like the account about Jesus Christ (pbuh) inserted in the Antiquities of Josephus, been exploded as another piece of forgery.The enmity of the beasts to the believers in God was brutal and savage, but that of the rational Horn was diabolical and malignant. This enmity was most noxious and harmful to the religion, because it was directed to pervert the truth and the faith. All the previous attacks of the four empires were pagan; they persecuted and oppressed the believers but could not pervert the truth and the faith. It was this Constantine who entered in the fold of Jesus (pbuh) in the shape of a believer and in the clothes of a sheep, but inwardly he was not a true believer at all. How poisonous and pernicious this enmity was can be seen from the following:(c) The Horn-Emperor speaks “big things” or “great words” (rōrbhān in the Chaldean tongue) against the Most High. To speak blasphemous words about God, to associate with Him other creatures, and to ascribe to Him foolish names and attributes, such as the “begetter” and “begotten,” “birth” and “procession” (of the second and the third person), “unity in the trinity” and“incarnation,” is to deny His unity.