This is the last of three volumes in this series on the epistles of Paul. (Paul’s treatise to the Israel of God (Hebrews) is found in Volume XI.) The seven epistles commented on in this volume were written between 60 and 65 CE, four of them during his house arrest in Rome (59-61 CE), two of them after his release and one from death row in Rome when he had been arrested again after his return from Spain, where Paul evidently went on his fourth and final missionary journey. In this volume we shall see that Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, which is his most spectacular epistle, was a letter to the church in Laodicea. In his letter to the Colossians, Paul is denouncing the angel worship that some Jewish Christians had introduced into the church, and in his letter to the slaveowner Philemon, Paul subtly and wisely criticizes the institution of slavery. In his letter to the church that he had founded in Philippi, we see that Paul is getting ready to face emperor Nero to defend himself against the charges brought against him by the Jews in 56 CE, when they falsely accused him of having polluted the Temple in Jerusalem by bringing a Greek into the temple compound, a crime that was a capital offence according to Jewish law. But since Paul had not broken any Roman laws, Nero (“the lion”) released Paul in 61 CE. Paul then returned to Asia Minor with Timothy and visited churches there and in Macedonia before going to Crete and mainland Greece, which is where he wrote this first letter to Timothy and his letter to Titus. In these epistles, we see that wolves in sheep’s clothing had entered the churches while Paul was imprisoned in Caesarea and Rome (56-61 CE), and that Paul tells Timothy and Titus to address this problem. In his second epistle to Timothy, Paul begs him to come to Rome as soon as possible to visit him on death row, for everyone but Luke has now left Paul as his execution draws near.