PAUL’S SECOND LETTER TO TIMOTHY Back in a Roman prison, Paul realized that he had reached the end of his race. His life, modeled on the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, was nearing its conclusion, so Paul commissioned his delegate Timothy to carry on his work. When Paul died at the hands of the Romans, he had composed this letter as his own epitaph (see 4:7–8) and empowered the church to carry on in his absence. The mission of the Good News would continue. SETTING Following Paul’s conversion