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| CIT_VAL_DECAD_IREN | ENT_VAL_DECAD | SRC_IRENAEUS_AH | Irenaeus, Against Heresies | AH I.2.5 | Moreover, they declare that this invisible and spiritual Pleroma of theirs is tripartite, being divided into an Ogdoad, a Decad, and a Duodecad. And for this reason they affirm it was that the "Saviour"-for they do not please to call Him "Lord"-did no work in public during the space of thirty years, thus setting forth the mystery of these Aeons. | 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. |