"He is before all things, and in him all things hold together" (Colossians 1:17).
The second interpretation of the clocks stopping at 1:17 is from Colossians. For the novel it can be interpreted in two ways: the apocalypse is from God and good will come from it, or that this perfect gift is the Boy who has not yet been born, but will be soon after. This Bible verse is explaining that everything God has given is perfect. "all good giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no alternation or shadow caused by change."(James 1:17). The first interpretation comes from the book of James. The verse 1:17 can be interpreted from two different books of the Bible with two separate authors. McCarthy purposely has the clocks stop at 1:17 because this is a Bible verse that is significant to the novel. This quote shows that the apocalypse is happening or about to happen. A long shear of light and then a series of low concussions"(52). The second allusion to the Bible is when the clocks stops at 1:17. This implies that McCarthy is paralleling the world in "The Road" to the world after the apocalypse in Revelation.
In "The Road" the world the story is set in is burnt and ash covered. In the Bible, the story of Christ's return is usually portrayed with fire everywhere. The world they live in is barren and had been destroyed by an apocalypse. In Revelations there is catastrophe that hits the world when Jesus is returning. This post-apocalyptic world that the Father and Boy are living in can be paralleled to the world described in the book Revelations. The first allusion to the Bible comes from the post-apocalyptic world. McCarthy makes this a Christian allegory through the post-apocalyptic world, when the clocks stop at 1:17, the Boy's innocence, and God like characteristics in the Boy. Through allusions and imagery to Christianity and the Bible in "The Road", Cormac McCarthy has written this novel as a Christian allegory.
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