7856. 'Do not eat any of it raw' means that it must not be devoid of love. This is clear from the meaning of 'eating' as enjoyment, as above in 7849; and from the meaning of 'raw' as devoid of the good of love. It is plain that this is what 'raw' means from the meaning of 'roasted with fire' as the good of love, dealt with above in 7852. Since 'raw' describes what has not been roasted with fire, it therefore means what is devoid of love.

7849. 'In which they will eat it' means enjoyment. This is clear from the meaning of 'eating' as making one's own, dealt with in 3168, 3513 (end), 4745, but at this point enjoyment since the subject is the state of initiation. The situation is this: When those who had been held back in safe keeping on the lower earth before the Lord's Coming - 6854, 6914, 7091 (end), 7828 - were about to be delivered they had to be made ready to receive the inflow of goodness and truth from the Lord; for they were going to pass through the midst of hell. And to guard, as they passed through, against any inflow of evils and falsities from hellish spirits round about, they had to be made ready so that when they went through they would be fully equipped with truth and good. But this passage through hell will in the Lord's Divine mercy be spoken about later on. That preparation or initiation into a state when goodness and truth were received is described by the things they were to do between the tenth day of the month and the fourteenth, and were to observe in connection with the eating of the Passover lamb.