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  1. Nov 30, 2017 · Manger comes from the Latin word for chew or eat. It refers to a trough where horses and donkeys and cattle ate. For example, Luke uses it in Luke 13:15: The Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it?”

  2. Oct 27, 2022 · The manger was a symbol—Only a roughhewn, splintery, smelly feeding trough could have adequately illustrated the shocking condescension that the God of the universe displayed through Christ’s birth.

  3. Dec 24, 2017 · The Significance of the Manger Scene. The very first manger scene came to be the day of the very first Christmas: “[Mary] gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.”

  4. Dec 13, 2006 · And what does the manger signify? After all, Jesus was almost certainly not the only baby in Bethlehem that night. We know that later on Herod had all the baby boys under the age of two put to death. So there must have been other infants and toddlers. What’s so special about a baby in a manger?

  5. Dec 13, 2023 · The most popular reference to the manger in the Bible is found in the Gospel of Luke, when Mary and Joseph are struggling to find shelter before Jesus’ birth. The text describes how “she laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn” (Luke 2:7).

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  8. Dec 24, 2017 · Manger, like you and me are dirty because of our flesh. Manger, like you and me are unworthy of divine royalty. Manger, like you and me are places God chose to put Himself. You get close enough to another Christian and you realize they stink like an animal.

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