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| CIT_VAL_SPIRITUAL_SEED_IREN | ENT_VAL_SPIRITUAL_SEED | SRC_IRENAEUS_AH | Irenaeus, Against Heresies | Against Heresies (Book I) | Spiritual substance, again, they describe as having been sent forth for this end, that, being here united with that which is animal, it might assume shape, the two elements being simultaneously subjected to the same discipline. | 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. |