[32] This "firstborn" reigned a thousand years, but then, having ascribed his "glory" to the demons from whom he obtained wealth and material benefits, his "glory" was lost, and secured by the Devil, who reigned in his place a thousand years, blighting the world, when Zoroaster was born to undertake the establishment of the divine Law on earth. Yima was ultimately developed into the Jamshid of Persian mythology, whose power over demons, fabulous wealth, and ultimate fall (through declaring himself a god, according to Firdusi) invested the legend of Solomon. From the legend of Solomon and the Solomonic Psalms the Epistle to the Hebrews brings its exaltation of Christ. From Ps. lxxxix. 26-7, as reproduced in 2 Sam. vii. 14, is quoted (i. 5) the divine promise, "I will be to him (Solomon) a Father and he shall be my Son," along with the manifesto at Solomon's enthronement (Ps. ii. 7), "Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee." Solomon is the "first-born" alluded to in Heb. i. 6: "When of old bringing the first-born into the inhabited earth (oikoumenên) he saith, And pay homage to him all angels of God?" And here we have an interesting example of evolution in the Solomon legend. The term "first-born," as indicating the relation of a human being to the deity, occurs but once in the Old Testament, namely, in Psalm lxxxix. 27. It occurs in a strange passage that must be quoted: 19. Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy ones, And saidst, I have laid help upon a youth; I have raised one elected out of the people. 20. I have discovered David, my servant: With my holy oil have I anointed him, 21. By whom my hand shall be established, Whom also mine arm shall strengthen. 22. The enemy shall not do him violence, Nor the son of evil afflict him. 23. I will beat down his adversaries before him And smite them that hate him. 24. But my faithfulness and my mercy end not with him, And in my name shall his horn be exalted. 25. I will extend his hand on the sea also, And his right hand on the rivers: 26. He shall address me, "Thou, my father, My God, and the rock of my support"; 27. In answer I constitute him first-born, Elyon of the kings of the earth. Although in all of these verses the Davidic royalty is exalted, the reference to David's own reign passes at verse 24 into a celebration of Solomon. Here, as in Psalm cxxxii. 17, Solomon is the "horn" of David: he was distinctively the power on sea and river, phrases inapplicable to David, and there is a contrast between the anointed "servant" (verse 20) and the "first-born" (verse 27). The next title, "Elyon" (Most High), comes very near to that of the deity (El Elyon) of the mysterious priest-king of Salem, Melchizedek, whose mythical character and identity with the legendary Solomon will be hereafter considered.