However, can you post the scan of this "bare hands" statement? If he really can do that, it would suggest to me that barriers aren't truly immune,
There's no contradiction. The common factor is that the weapon has zero magic power of it's own while Anos hand does. The problem was simply circumvented by actually supplying the weapon with his own magic power instead
I'm a bit confused. He says that the sword only damages demons, but it damages him. I agree that this isn't resistance negation, because from what I'm reading it isn't that he had a unique resistance to the sword, but because the sword was made in such a way that it was limited in who it could damage. So it's not that it wouldn't damage Jerga because he can resist holy attacks, but that the weapon shouldn't have been able to damage non-demons at all. I'm missing the context, but
The context is that truly holy beings (holy existences) cannot be harmed by something holy.
Basically in-verse, Holy existences are outright immune to true holy power. It's not about only being limited to demons because it can still harm other races like humans.
Anos then summoned Venuzdonoa and destroyed the reason of Jerga being something truly holy allowing the Evansmana to then harm him. Basically it destroyed the reason that "True Holy beings cannot be harmed by something equally holy" thus bypassing the immunity.
I agree, it appears that there is no fear manipulation at work, just a generic "this persons power is noticeable and scary" which is pretty common.
It's not that at all. Anos already denied that notion when he stated it wasn't because of Ivis status. He says it's because of the magic he emits is so overwhelming large compared to theirs that it induces fear.
They're not scared because his powerful, they feel fear because his magic power makes them feel it.
Anos goes on to say that in his case they wouldn't be able to a sense his magic power at all, they will be completely numb to it as a natural survival instinct caus if they sense it, they will involuntarily die. He goes on to say it's a phenomenon found in those with low resistance to magic. Anos also easily fear haxes an entire country of humans because humans generally have low magic resistance.
Resisting something that repels your power will be what then?
It isn't when you consider what he said is outrightly wrong
On the contrary, you just clear proved you don't.
It doesn't work by rewinding time, Agronemt is simply magic that regenerates the source, pure and simple, no time shenanigans needed. On Nosgalia it regenerated the source, when Girisilis uses it, it regenerates the destroyed source, when Anos used it on Aeges after graham erased him, it regenerated his source all without manipulating time.
The part about time travel is only when you are using it on yourself. When a persons source is destroyed, their magic ends. You can't cast magic without a source and your magic cannot linger after your source is destroyed. Revide is simply used to send the spell Agronemt into the future before the source is destroyed and have the spell regenerate it there. It's not used to circumvent regen negation like you are claiming.
The sword is made specifically to prevent him from resurrecting, regenerating, reviving through every means and yes, there's knowledge of magic that can regenerate the source after it has been destroyed.