you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.”38 A manger (2:7). A manger (phatnē)was a feeding trough for animals. The word could also be used of a stall or enclosure where animals would be fed, but the reference to being “placed” there suggests the former. Because there was no room for them in the inn (2:7). Contrary to the traditional Christmas story, the “inn” (katalyma) was probably not an ancient hotel with rooms to rent and an innkeeper, but either a guest room in a private