Written for readers who have finished Book 1.
Senior overseer of the Ephesian church: a man in his sixties who has spent thirty years keeping order in a scattered community that meets in houses across a great city. The correspondence with the coast-road assemblies, the disputes, the pastoral rounds — all of it runs through him, and he is meticulous, tireless and genuinely respected. Ephesus is a well-run church, and he is the reason.