How should the two uses of al-nās in Āl ʿImrān 3:173 be read?

Bayān al-Ibdāl: Verbs, Nouns, Particles and Sentence-Level Meaning

• Both necessarily mean every human on earth
• Both always identify the same individual
• The first may refer to informants and the second to the hostile force
• Both nouns are grammatically indefinite