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| CIT_SIM_HELENA_IREN | ENT_SIM_HELENA | SRC_IRENAEUS_AH | Irenaeus, Against Heresies | AH I.23.2 | Now this Simon of Samaria, from whom all sorts of heresies derive their origin, formed his sect out of the following materials:-Having redeemed from slavery at Tyre, a city of Phoenicia, a certain woman named Helena, he was in the habit of carrying her about with him, declaring that this woman was the first conception of his mind, the mother of all, by whom, in the beginning, he conceived in his mind of forming angels and arch | 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. |