a manger - “the manger.†The sign was to consist, it seems, solely in the overpowering contrast between the things just said of Him and the lowly condition in which they would find Him - Him whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting, “ye shall find a Babeâ€; whom the heaven of heavens cannot contain, “wrapt in swaddling bandsâ€; the “Savior, Christ the Lord,†lying in a manger! Thus early were these amazing contrasts, which are His chosen style, held forth. (See 2Co 8:9.)