The $If -articlelist command will generate a list of articles, and the -Ppagenum (Page Number Parameter) parameter is used to specify the page of articles that will be displayed. The articles on the page will be dependent upon a) the total number of article created in the list, and b) the number of articles displayed per page as defined by the -Pperpage parameter.
Example:
$if -articlelist(topic) -Ptopic'topicID' -Ppagenum'1' -Pperpage'100' -Psort'DATE_REVERSE'$
The above example would display the first 100 articles, sorted in reverse date order.