It happened, while they were there, that the day had come that she should give birth.
And laid him in a manger ...  The word here denotes "not' only a manger but, by metonymy, the stall or `crib'  (Proverbs 14:4) containing the manger."[14] One cannot fail to be impressed with the intimations of Christ's final sufferings which appear in things related to his birth.  In his death, they wrapped him in "bandages" much like swaddling clothes; and he was nailed to the "tree" much like the manger made from a scooped-out log.  He who was to bear the sins of all men, in accepting a share of man's mortality, was even in his birth associated with emblems of suffering. Just as there was no room in the inn, there was no room for him in the world which slew him.