The concept of nature is front-loaded. Nature is what things are in their origin. Hence physis sometimes means “birth.”
Hence too Arius: If the Father is ungenerated and the Son begotten, then they must have distinct natures.
Athanasius and the Cappadocians deny the premise. True, the Father is ungenerated in every sense; He is not even begotten. The Son is ungenerated in the sense that He is eternal; but He is begotten. He originates from the Father, while the Father originates from none. Yet, they are the same nature, and same substance, homoousios . Origin does not determine nature.
Breaking the link between nature and origin, Trinitarian theology opened the possibility of a back-loaded, eschatological ontology.
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