The manger, for instance, could not have seemed to her ‘lowly’ unless she regarded its utility as shameful, or embarrassing, which could have been true only if she wished to perpetuate a certain image of herself, in which case she would not have been chosen as the Theotokos (or God-bearer), because the very role of that person was to deliver to the world the incarnate divinity who would make no distinctions between ‘lowly’ and ‘lofty’, or who, to be more exact, would reveal the meaninglessness and falsity of such categories by upending them, and by finding his glorification in what was meant to be his humiliation (death by crucifixion).