[prox]

Question : as I understand it, the later recitations trump the earlier ones. But if it is “the eternal word”, wouldn’t all utterances be true? So you can both apply the first or the latter depending on the circumstances.

Do you know how this is resolved or interpreted?

[Ingosla]

The perfect answer for your question can be found here [1] by Ayub Hamid.

[1] https://www.quora.com/The-Quran-Do-later-teachings-and-verse...