Ely and Elijah - Biblical Allusion in The Road

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The prophet Elijah is the harbinger of the apocalypse — the “great and terrible day of the Lord.”

harbinger = a person or thing that foreshadows or predicts something (A robin is a harbinger of spring)

“According to the Books of Kings, Elijah raised the dead, brought fire down from the sky, and ascended into heaven in a chariot. In the Book of Malachi, Elijah's return is prophesied "before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord,"[2] making him a harbinger of the Messiah and the eschaton in various faiths that revere the Hebrew Bible.”

eschaton = Eschaton means judgement day or end of the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah

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