discursive literature, due to its style of argumentation, even individual propositions express very little meaning apart from the paragraph to which they belong. The discursive nature of the Epistles therefore demands that we take as the smallest unit of meaning to be interpreted, not the word or the proposition, nor even a compound sentence, but the paragraph.”15 How does one delineate each paragraph in an epistle? In one sense, our Bible translations make that easy, for most of them are printed