namely a discourse. This is a mistake, not because there are no epistolary features to these documents (of course there are, at the beginning and end of each of them). It is rather a mistake of emphasis, for the majority of this material was not meant to be read as ancient business or personal letters were often read or as essays or moral treatises were read.69 Paul is a pastor speaking from his heart in these letters in a cogent, compelling, and rhetorically effective way. He is writing in such