Donald Fairbairn ( Life in the Trinity: An Introduction to Theology With the Help of the Church Fathers 
This is why the church fathers think of impassibility in connection with timelessness. Timelessness does not mean that God is incapable of “entering” time and interacting in time. He obviously did interact in time; that’s what incarnation is about: God the Word living a human life, which means a temporal life.
It means, on the one hand, that He is not damaged or derailed by the ravages of time (as we are), and that, since He always already possessed all fullness, He cannot become more than He was through time.
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