In der Zukunft hatte er vornehmlich zu fürchten, daß ein nachfolgender Papst ihm weniger gewogen sein, und das nehmen möchte, was Alexander ihm gegeben hatte.
But as to the future he had to fear, in the first place, that a new successor to the Church might not be friendly to him and might seek to take from him that which Alexander had given him, so he decided to act in four ways. Firstly, by exterminating the families of those lords whom he had despoiled, so as to take away that pretext from the Pope.