tomb will require remembering the words of Jesus (24:6–8). Its sign value is likely connected to Isaiah 1:3: “The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner’s manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.”31 Isaiah laments that Israel did not know God as their “manger,” who nourished his people. Heil, among others, interprets “the feeding trough” in which Jesus lies (2:12, 16) to be “the sign by which God makes known to lowly shepherds (2:15) and through them to all the people (2:10,
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