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A creed that the Old Testament is a living document
to condemn as blasphemy, abhorred by both Jews and
Muslims. If it be other than Constantine, then the question
arises, who is he? He has already come and gone, and
not an imposter or the Anti-Christ hereafter to appear,
that we may be unable to know and identify. If we do
not admit that the Horn in question has come already,
then how are we to interpret the four beasts, the first of
which is certainly the Chaldean Empire, the second the
Medo-Persian, and so forth? If the fourth beast does not
represent the Roman Empire, how can we interpret the
third, with its four heads, as the Empire of Alexander,
split into four kingdoms after his death? Is there any other
Power succeeding the Greek Empire before the Roman
Empire with its ten potentates persecuting the believers
in God? Sophistry and illusion are of no use. The “Little
Horn” is decidedly Constantine, even if we may deny the
prophecy of Daniel. It is immaterial whether a prophet,
priests or a sorcerer wrote the seventh chapter of the Book
of Daniel. One thing is certain, that its predictions and
descriptions of the events, some twenty-four centuries
ago, are found to be exact, true, and have been fulfilled in
the person of Constantine the Great, whom the Church of
Rome has always very wisely abstained from beatifying
as a Saint, as the Greek Church has done.

(d) Not only does the “Little Horn,” which grew
into something of a more “formidable vision” than
the rest, speak impious words against the Most High,
but also it wages war against the “Saints of the Most
High, and vanquishes them” (verse 25). In the eyes of
a Hebrew Prophet the people who believed in one God
was a separate and holy people. Now it is indisputably
true that Constantine persecuted those Christians who,
like the Jews, believed in the absolute Unity of God
and courageously declared the Trinity to be a false and