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| CIT_SIM_GREAT_POWER_IREN | ENT_SIM_GREAT_POWER | SRC_IRENAEUS_AH | Irenaeus, Against Heresies | AH I.23 | These hold that the knowledge of the unspeakable Greatness is itself perfect redemption. For since both defect and passion flowed from ignorance, the whole substance of what was thus formed is destroyed by knowledge; and therefore knowledge is the redemption of the inner man. | Roberts & Rambaut (Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. I) | 1885 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_I/IRENAEUS/Against_Heresies:_Book_I | heresiological-verbatim | HOSTILE WITNESS: Irenaeus reports the Valentinian system in order to refute it; not a self-description. | 2026-06-18 | name-anchored within the work + substring gate (Ante-Nicene Fathers text); section locus per attestation | 1 | 1 | Located by name within Against Heresies; confirm the exact chapter.section locus cited. |