<p>12:16 <i>And he spoke a parable to them, saying: The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully</i>- The aorist could imply that the ground was about to bring forth plentifully. The way the man talks about building bigger barns in order to store his &quot;goods&quot; suggests he is fantasizing about wealth, about actually getting a large harvest and turning it into goods; to spend time and labour demolishing existing barns and building greater when the intensity of harvest is upon him is foolish, and suggests an unreal fantasy about wealth rather than reality. Likewise his assumption that his harvest would be so huge that he could live from it for the rest of his life... is perhaps somewhat unrealistic.</p>