The present work aims to investigate in what way Paul makes a perspective of language emerge from the Scriptures, focusing on his Epistles written to the Romans and Corinthians. It is tested the hypothesis that there is a pragmatic perspective of language in these Epistles. Special emphasis is given to two interconnected aspects: the way with which Paul approaches, using metaphors, the presence of metaphors in the Scriptures; and the way that the issue of the unspeakable and the apophatic genre manifest in his Epistles. The analyses of selected passages shows mainly that (a) although there are passages in which metaphor is put in the discourse as a kind of ornament, or lure, as a way of obtaining the understanding and attention of listeners, just as classic Aristotelic theories predict, the Apostle, with the tension between letter and spirit, breaks away from the ideas of the primacy of literalness and intrinsic word meaning, in many occasions where metaphor, considered not only as mere agent of aesthetic or rhetoric impact, appears as a resource that enables an indirect approach to God – which is something that brings Paulo’s perspective closer to later theories of metaphor in which it is taken as a founding phenomenon; (b) in order to approach the theme of the divine, Paul attributes to it the characteristic of ineffability, in accordance with some Greek intellectuals who preceded him; however, in his discourse, the unsayable can part off with the unknowable and be probed by humans, as long as they free themselves from the letter that kills, once only through the spirit men can know God – who is Spirit – face to face; (c) rendering the unspeakable acknowledgeable, through the activity of the spirit, does not mean, unquestionably, making it sayable.