<p>2:12- see on Mt. 18:4.</p><p><i>And this will be a sign to you: You shall find a baby wrapped in birth clothes and lying in a manger</i>- The &quot;sign&quot; that this great salvation was for real was in the very absurdity of a Divine saviour being born in the very lowliest of human situations, placed in a manger from where animals ate, born amidst the smell and sound and dirt of animal excrement. The whole thing had the hallmark of the Divine.</p>