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81erroneous conception of the Deity. More than a thousand ecclesiastics were summoned to the General Council at Nicea (the modern Izmid), of whom only three hundred and eighteen persons subscribed to the decisions of the Council, and these too formed three opposite factions with their respective ambiguous and unholy expressions of “homousion” or “homoousion,” “consubstantial,” and other terms utterly and wholly strangersto the Prophets of Israel, but only worthy of the “Speaking Horn.”The Christians who suffered persecutions and martyrdoms under the pagan emperors of Rome because they believed in One God and in his servant Jesus (pbuh) were now doomed by the imperial edict of the “Christian” Constantine to even severer tortures because they refused to adore the servantJesus(pbuh) as consubstantial and coeval with his Lord and Creator! The Elders and Ministers of the Arian Creed, i.e. Qăshīshi and Mshămshāní -as they were called by the early Jewish Christians- were deposed or banished, their religious books suppressed, and their churchesseized and handed overto theTrinitarian bishops and priests. Any historical work on the early Christian Church will give us ample information about the service rendered by Constantine to the cause of the Trinitarian Creed, and tyranny to those who opposed it. The merciless legions in every province were placed at the disposal of the ecclesiastical authorities. Constantine personifies a regime of terror and fierce war against the Unitarians, which lasted in the East for three centuries and a half, when the Muslims established the religion of Allah and assumed the power and dominion over the lands trodden and devastated by the four beasts.(e) The “Talking Horn” is accused of having contemplated to change “the Law and the times.” This is a very serious charge against the Horn. Its blasphemies or “great words against the Most High” may or may not