The Syrian fathers are carriers of ascetic ideals. Their activity promoted the occurrence of characteristic spiritual phenomena for the given epoch.

Ioane Zedazneli is a symbol of the issued monk and the instructor. He appears as the inspirer of the monastic movement.

"Lessons" by Ioane is the religious–philosophical tractate that purifies and spiritually raises his pupils. At the primary stage of the formation of monastery ideals such kinds of lessons had a vital importance, as just it should become the program not only for the pupils of Ioane, but also for the general monastic life.